
Ego tripping
Buckminster Fuller apparently accomplished nothing before age 53 – then it was all domes and celebrity. Stewart Brand is how I learned about that – because Brand’s early life was all about domes! It was a mid-20thC sensation. Like drones

Ego tripping
Buckminster Fuller apparently accomplished nothing before age 53 – then it was all domes and celebrity. Stewart Brand is how I learned about that – because Brand’s early life was all about domes! It was a mid-20thC sensation. Like drones

Energy levels and work-from-home
I love my work, wherever I do it, so I have been seduced by sitting at my desk the last few years. Running this AM, after a few weeks of hiatus, I realized something. Well a few things — which

Energy levels and work-from-home
I love my work, wherever I do it, so I have been seduced by sitting at my desk the last few years. Running this AM, after a few weeks of hiatus, I realized something. Well a few things — which

Carbon Startup School
Here’s a talk I gave this month in Madrid at the fabulous South Summit called “Carbon Startup School: 15 minute edition“. It’s about how to use your internet/tech chops to start a company that can actually move the needle on

Carbon Startup School
Here’s a talk I gave this month in Madrid at the fabulous South Summit called “Carbon Startup School: 15 minute edition“. It’s about how to use your internet/tech chops to start a company that can actually move the needle on

Life Extension
Can we live forever? Perhaps an odd question to be asking in a time of Covid, climate crisis, and war. But since you know me, you won’t be overly surprised that I think the answer is yes, and that I

Life Extension
Can we live forever? Perhaps an odd question to be asking in a time of Covid, climate crisis, and war. But since you know me, you won’t be overly surprised that I think the answer is yes, and that I

Predictions: 2022
Belatedly, Davos and DLD and the meetings of the great and the good just wrapped up. Good thing, too. Because in January nobody would have predicted what was #1 on the list by June: War in Ukraine Climate Psychedelics Quantum

Predictions: 2022
Belatedly, Davos and DLD and the meetings of the great and the good just wrapped up. Good thing, too. Because in January nobody would have predicted what was #1 on the list by June: War in Ukraine Climate Psychedelics Quantum

What to do between startups, from March 2021.
Here’s a post I drafted and didn’t publish from March 2021, about a year ago. I’ll tell you how it went in my next post. You won’t have to wait a whole year! I am chatting to a founder who

What to do between startups, from March 2021.
Here’s a post I drafted and didn’t publish from March 2021, about a year ago. I’ll tell you how it went in my next post. You won’t have to wait a whole year! I am chatting to a founder who

Predictions for the 2020s from Dec 31, 2019
Dinner party chatter mostly but I think it is worthy. What’s very likely to be totally different by 2030? Gender identity and gender roles, at least in US and EU. Climate crisis. We will have a solution underway, even as

Predictions for the 2020s from Dec 31, 2019
Dinner party chatter mostly but I think it is worthy. What’s very likely to be totally different by 2030? Gender identity and gender roles, at least in US and EU. Climate crisis. We will have a solution underway, even as

2022
I am a perpetual optimist. 2022 will be better! Omicron is the end and it will happen fast! Trump is out! My new work is strong… I think. But the start of the year included my friend from college N,

2022
I am a perpetual optimist. 2022 will be better! Omicron is the end and it will happen fast! Trump is out! My new work is strong… I think. But the start of the year included my friend from college N,

The first four notes
A rare Radiolab + New Yorker recommended fail: a nerdy paradise about Beethoven’s Fifth that made me feel like I was reading the search results for “Beethoven” across 1800 to 1950. Every philosopher or admiral or anyone to mention Beethoven

The first four notes
A rare Radiolab + New Yorker recommended fail: a nerdy paradise about Beethoven’s Fifth that made me feel like I was reading the search results for “Beethoven” across 1800 to 1950. Every philosopher or admiral or anyone to mention Beethoven

One Up On Wall St / Peter Lynch and Barton Biggs’ Hedgehogging
Highlights here. Part of my process is reading books and I recently finished two that shed light on what later stage startups need to think about — being public.Most founders know little about it, get a BS class on it

One Up On Wall St / Peter Lynch and Barton Biggs’ Hedgehogging
Highlights here. Part of my process is reading books and I recently finished two that shed light on what later stage startups need to think about — being public.Most founders know little about it, get a BS class on it
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