Writing

Chris Poole, founder of Canvas, "a place to share and play with images" gave an amazing talk the other day, Self-Expression through Social Media, you can see it below:Chris speaks about how identity intersects with the forms and methods of [...]  Read more

In real life I am who I am. As Boon and Watt once wrote: "Real names be proof."But does a name, a real name, an identity, capture the full richness of personal self-expression? I'm not sure it does - indeed [...]  Read more

My friend Anthony recently wrote about a six step process he uses to determine whether a new idea he finds out about, or a new company someone is starting, or a new product being released, is interesting to him.He emailed [...]  Read more

"The fitness function of a venture capitalist — meaning the metrics of performance, the report card — is pretty pure. You show up with money, and one way or another more money has to come back than goes in." Bing [...]  Read more

The folks at the Tribeca Film festival were kind (or silly) enough to ask me to write something for their Future of Film blog.Which I did - entitled "The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get." I'd been thinking alot [...]  Read more

Lou Reed wrote this line (my favorite lyric ever) in the context of relationships (I think). But it's much more applicable than that.Ideas for new businesses are amazing, wonderful, creative things. What makes ideas so interesting is that they are [...]  Read more

Tim Devane - who we luckily hired last year - wrote an essay about how he, a kid right out of college with little work experience, landed a job. Tim is a wonderful writer, but his top line tips are [...]  Read more

The title of this online space is "Maximizing the serendipity around you" which comes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan, and is as much of a universal business rule I've ever heard and followed.To me it means that you [...]  Read more