My son, his girlfriend and my wife Nancy went to see Mad Max Fury Road. They saw it in 3D. Nancy ate an unbelievable amount of popcorn and returned sick [ … ]
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Meeker Internet Trends 2015
This morning Mary Meeker released her Internet Trends for 2015. Going back to her early days at Morgan Stanley, her commentary, deep dive and analysis has been the standard. I [ … ]
Orphan Black. A No BS review.
Orphan Black makes no sense. It’s impossible to figure out the show and what’s going on because even the script writers have no idea. They just keep doing something. Lots of [ … ]
A no BS review. Broadway. The Curious Incident. Dog. Nightime.
I first collided with the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at a public reading at the Housing Works bookshop downtown (a very cool place to go, [ … ]
Survivor Season 30 Worlds Apart and Finale Prediction
Season 30 of Survivor Worlds Apart – White Collar vs. Blue Collar vs. No Collar. Like Zelig, I could have been on every tribe. I am definitely White Collar, or [ … ]
Venture Capital and LPs touching the elephant. Bonus review – Waiting for Guffman
Venture Capital has its own Rashomon effect. One of the narratives that should be told is that of the LP. I am an LP in several tier 1 firms and [ … ]
Seneca. Letter 4
Seneca is one of those authors that have always been my go-to when I need to recalibrate, to sync my watch to Greenwich Mean Time. It’s a great work of [ … ]
Losing a Friend and Pro Rata Depression
I lost two people I know to suicide recently. One was a relation thru marriage who I knew only like a fly on one wall might know another fly [ … ]
Fight
I like a good fight It’s barbaric but with a stucture and its own etiquette. It’s the coliseum, running man and sometimes an art form. Some magical displacement of me [ … ]
(updated w/acquisition: why’d it happen?) LinkedIn v. the World
“Updated 6/14/2016”]I wrote the article below in May of 2015. I was actively short, and shorting, the stock of LinkedIn. My average short was around $210. In mid February of [ … ]