Starry Night, a Protest against Tech
Van Gogh and the Impressionists came along at a time when a new technology, photography, created a huge shift in art. Suddenly, aRead More
Chaos and Order
I remember the terrible conversation like it was yesterday. One of best friends had ended his life, and I was chasing after theRead More
Weekend Watercolor #3 Grapes
I began painting watercolors during lockdown, when a special friend gave me a set of Kai paints and I've painted nearly everyRead More
There’s No Place Like Home. No place Like Home.
I grew up outside of Pittsburgh, in a town called Beaver. For the record, I never saw one there. To me, the most fantasticRead More
Growth Rules
I was listening to Chamath, the great Facebook growth officer on his basic tenets of "just figuring things out".
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Care for less people, but More
It's not hard to blame Social Media for one more thing, so I'm going to try. In the years BZ (before 'Zuck) Dunbar's numberRead More
Lonely by choice
Sometime I am asked where I get ideas, and how I choose to work on them. I am not one to pile on.
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Our Economy; Everything Everywhere All at Once
The movie Everything Everywhere All At Once won basically all the Oscars. It was, to be sure a good movie, but I had to watch itRead More
SVB:”Be the first, be smarter, or cheat”.
Be the first, be smarter, or cheat"... Peter Thiel and consorts perfectly applied John Tuld's (Jeremy Irons in the 2011 movie Margin Call)Read More