Writing

Conventional wisdom is that deleting old emails regularly is the best way to avoid issues down the road. My experience has been different. I’ve been involved in a few legal matters over the years where email discovery has been done. [...]  Read more

Growing up, I always enjoyed the up and down patterns of work and play. Back to school in the fall, a solid winter break, back to school for winter and spring, and then a long summer break. Just as you [...]  Read more

Today is Labor Day in the US. It is a day to celebrate labor, the union movement, and the role of the worker in our economy and our society. I have always struggled with the idea that labor and capital [...]  Read more

The Economist has a cover story this week called Peak Valley . The article suggests that Silicon Valley’s lead as a hub for innovation has peaked and other regions are rising. It ends with the concern that innovation more broadly [...]  Read more

It’s a long weekend with many of us off the grid. So what do you do when you are off the grid? Get a GoTenna to stay connected. This promotional video explains the power of GoTenna when you and your [...]  Read more

I don’t know when Gmail started doing these for me but it was around the time I switched over to the new UI. Most likely this is one of the features of that new UI. When I have not responded [...]  Read more

There is a framework I’ve/we’ve used over the years to think about where to invest and where not to invest that I call “atoms vs bits.” I am not sure where I got it from but the concept is simple. [...]  Read more

Our portfolio company Coinbase partnered with Qriously to study the adoption of blockchain and crypto on campuses around the world. They published their findings on the Coinbase blog yesterday. Here are some interesting findings: Stanford, Cornell, and Penn lead the [...]  Read more

I've been thinking about moving from a Mac to a Chromebook as my primary computing device. I have not used desktop software for probably a decade now. The browser is how I do all of my desktop computing. Paying up [...]  Read more