Never have those who are invisible been more visible in our society, and while they have always merited more gratitude than they have been given, never have we owed them quite as much as we do this year. Let’s take a moment and thank every single one of our essential workers who have kept the … Continue reading How I stay sane in 2020
Has the Internet become better at mediating change? It’s a good question, and the exploration of the topic by Jane Hu for The New Yorker is even better. This should be on one of your must-reads for the weekend. (In relation to this piece, I would recommend this report from Brookings. More than half of … Continue reading What is worth reading this weekend
Fourteen years ago, on a somewhat cold evening, I stepped out of a party being hosted by Ruby Red Labs in an office it shared with Adaptive Path in San Francisco’s SOMA district. I craved nicotine. Noah Glass, the forgotten co-founder of Twitter, told me about Twitter (or Twttr as it was called at the … Continue reading It all started with a single tweet
Nobody on the road Nobody on the beach I feel it in the air The summer’s out of reach The Boys of Summer, Don Henley. Summer officially starts for me in the last week of June — together with my True Ventures colleagues, we head to the beach just across the bridge for our annual … Continue reading Oh hello, it is July 4 already
The Hey Controversy: Last week, the folks behind Basecamp launched a new email platform, Hey. Apple’s app store rejected the app, and it started a firestorm. Ben Brooks has done a great analysis of the situation. It is hype and drama free, and the kind of piece I would have — and should have — … Continue reading Worth Reading
