The Four Stages of Disruption by @stevesi

Pretty handy snippet. “Productivity tools such as Quip, Box, Haiku Deck, Lucidchart, and more are being pulled by customers beyond early adopters to be compatible with existing tools and usage patterns. In practice, these tools are currently iterating very rapidly

The Four Stages of Disruption by @stevesi

Pretty handy snippet. “Productivity tools such as Quip, Box, Haiku Deck, Lucidchart, and more are being pulled by customers beyond early adopters to be compatible with existing tools and usage patterns. In practice, these tools are currently iterating very rapidly

Product idea: playing card meets smartphone game

You get cards and play them by setting down your smartphone. Does this not exist already?

Product idea: playing card meets smartphone game

You get cards and play them by setting down your smartphone. Does this not exist already?

Working for Yourself, the future

In the future more people will work for themselves. Startups or solo business. That’s my prediction. I think it’s already in its way — the days of big employers and unions and corporate lifetimes probably peaked in the 1960s. The

Working for Yourself, the future

In the future more people will work for themselves. Startups or solo business. That’s my prediction. I think it’s already in its way — the days of big employers and unions and corporate lifetimes probably peaked in the 1960s. The

Engagement in work apps

Very cool to hear the engagement numbers for slack. About 500k users per week? That’s probably like 0.5% of all professional workers in the world…? 100mm globally let’s say. Looked at Quip today and of 14k contacts in my phone

Engagement in work apps

Very cool to hear the engagement numbers for slack. About 500k users per week? That’s probably like 0.5% of all professional workers in the world…? 100mm globally let’s say. Looked at Quip today and of 14k contacts in my phone

About stealing jobs, by robots or immigrants

Every single intellectual piece on robots has this same narrative and they all suck: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/apr/02/how-robots-algorithms-are-taking-over/?insrc=toc The narrative is: Robots will eventually steal people’s jobs and we won’t have anything to do. The rich will employ robots and not people and

About stealing jobs, by robots or immigrants

Every single intellectual piece on robots has this same narrative and they all suck: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/apr/02/how-robots-algorithms-are-taking-over/?insrc=toc The narrative is: Robots will eventually steal people’s jobs and we won’t have anything to do. The rich will employ robots and not people and

Messaging as a service.

I do think smart notifications are an important future area. // Layer launched its messaging-as-a-service platform. This is a fascinating space – there’s no reason why social networks should be the only people to use messaging. Link

Messaging as a service.

I do think smart notifications are an important future area. // Layer launched its messaging-as-a-service platform. This is a fascinating space – there’s no reason why social networks should be the only people to use messaging. Link

When things are looking bad, who wins? (Corrected)

In the news this week: Breyer of Accel owns 3% of Etsy and Fred Wilson owns 1.5% and their firms own 10x more — 45%. (The CEO owns 2%.) Personally? What? (Maybe I forgot the exact numbers.) Not their funds?

When things are looking bad, who wins? (Corrected)

In the news this week: Breyer of Accel owns 3% of Etsy and Fred Wilson owns 1.5% and their firms own 10x more — 45%. (The CEO owns 2%.) Personally? What? (Maybe I forgot the exact numbers.) Not their funds?

Three fitness tips

I made some changes at Christmas. New – Walk or run ~10k steps / 5 miles daily. Easy in NYC. Time/speed don’t matter. Small increments mostly like 10 min walk to subway. – Take the stairs at home and office.

Three fitness tips

I made some changes at Christmas. New – Walk or run ~10k steps / 5 miles daily. Easy in NYC. Time/speed don’t matter. Small increments mostly like 10 min walk to subway. – Take the stairs at home and office.

Product idea, adding on re: smart notifications

Here is a post I did recently <a href=”http://a.sarva.co/startup-idea-smart-notifs/”>on an idea for a simple notifications layer/framework</a> that both delivers notifs to users but is also smart (i.e., knows what they saw and where and avoids duplication and batches nicely etc.)

Product idea, adding on re: smart notifications

Here is a post I did recently <a href=”http://a.sarva.co/startup-idea-smart-notifs/”>on an idea for a simple notifications layer/framework</a> that both delivers notifs to users but is also smart (i.e., knows what they saw and where and avoids duplication and batches nicely etc.)