I wrote a post about two years on my personal pivot. I went from Fat to Lean. It was the startup of me. This is a postscript to that. It [ … ]
Congrats Pirate Bay. You win!
This brief Pirate Bay history is incomplete, skipping most important details. It is the forest, not the trees. Around 1999 there were several peer-to-peer file sharing services. LimeWire (which sucked and [ … ]
Twitter. Smart bot invasion. Mr Smith. T1000. Replicant.
Twitter. I used to love the product but hate the stock, now my love for the product is being deteriorated, I like it, not love. If I were to use [ … ]
Twitter oscillation. TWTR implosion
TWTR expands and contracts. It is, in many ways our universe in Tech and VC where I reside. There are alternate universes, cyclical companies, utilities, consumer items, but I am [ … ]
Begins the market defragmented
The past 40 years have been good. Progressively lower inflation, friendly stock markets with insatiable appetites, productivity gains, technology and a few trillion dollars between friends has done wonders. All [ … ]
Journalism. Craziest NYTimes retraction. Ever
The above is from the NYTimes. In a time of endless war, inflation and corruption all serviced by a friendly media, it’s great to see the the ‘Newspaper of Record’ occasionally correct [ … ]
Timestamping my predictions for UFC 205 #UFC205
Every sports event has people who are convinced, and occasionally convincing, that they predicted the outcome. I am time stamping my predictions for UFC 205, I’m not gonna give a [ … ]
Republics are fragile, unstable operating systems…
This is an interesting election. It is historic but it also is not. Rogue oligarchs show up from time to time. Strongman have been called up to rule over a [ … ]
Empire vs #Startup
Human history is the story of war. There is always a foe. War takes different forms and its battles are military but also trade, industry, innovation, immigration, commerce, currency and [ … ]










