Writing

I am flying home from Europe today (by way of Reykjavik) and as a result, have a lot of time to catch up on things. I have spent the bulk of the day writing up a handful of strategy docs [...]  Read more

I am in the Netherlands this week, catching up the Leap engineering team which is based here in Utrecht, and attending an IoT conference that Helium will be at in Amsterdam. I have always loved it here, primarily because of [...]  Read more

Azeem Azhar has a great post up about the brewing conversation about regulation and the tech industry . There are two main points that stand out to me: 1) In digital systems, ML/AI and data network effects create feedback loops [...]  Read more

I spent time over the past few days with several entrepreneurs who are building crypto or “web 3” applications well outside of the financial space. One of the takeaways for me was of the important role that digital “bearer” assets [...]  Read more

I spent the morning today at MTA headquarters, judging the “Accessibility” category of the NYC Transit Tech Lab competition , organized by the Partnership for NYC . Here is the view from the 20th floor of MTA HQ at Bowling [...]  Read more

I was out with some friends over the summer, one of whom is a college soccer coach, and we were talking about what it is that makes great teams great. I love talking to to coaches and people who have [...]  Read more

Discuss on Twitter is a WordPress plugin that uses Twitter as the commenting system for your blog. I’ve been developing it over the past few weeks along with Fred Wilson and Kirk Love as part of the launch of AVC [...]  Read more

A few years ago I wrote about one of my favorite product sayings: “Half, Not Half-Assed “, which comes from my favorite book on product development & teamwork, Getting Real (from the team behind Basecamp ). I actually first got [...]  Read more