Writing

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Often art can expose issues more clearly than other mediums. A show opened at The Shed this week called Manual Override . It is about the increasing power of technology in our lives and our inability to control it. There [...]  Read more

This is a week full of philanthropy for The Gotham Gal and me. We are attending two fundraisers for organizations we support and throwing one for an organization we started. I woke up thinking about giving back and how important [...]  Read more

I was talking to a friend today about company values and how important they are but also how lame so many of them are. I told him that some of my favorite company values come from our former portfolio company [...]  Read more

I got a new Pixel 4XL phone a week ago and it took me most of the week (it was a busy one) to migrate over to it. I wrote a bit about how I’m careful about the migration last [...]  Read more

It is planning season when management teams work to develop the roadmap for the coming year. The truth is that it is hard to do more than two or three big things at a time, no matter how large you [...]  Read more

This spring, Mike Bloomberg gave the commencement speech at my alma mater MIT. He talks about moonshots, engineers, and the looming climate crisis. It is a great talk and one that shows what kind of leader I personally would like [...]  Read more

I’m a huge fan of toys and other things that can get young kids engaging in instructing machines what to do. I think that in the world these children are going to grow up into, that is going to be [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Cloudflare posted yesterday about the two and a half year war it waged against a patent troll called Blackbird . This was the battle plan that Cloudflare came up with: After we were sued by Blackbird, we [...]  Read more