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  • $480 Phone Call

    I’ve been catching drips and drabs of a National Geographic Drama/Documentary (dromedary?) about the first Internet wave called “Valley of the Boom”. I very clearly remember losing my WWW virginity. It was early summer of 1994 and I was living in Tokyo. I had been “online” since 1984 in high school through Compuserve (where my […]

  • Stretching the Noodle

    In Japan I learned a wonderful word that created an unexpected and painful self-awareness. “Tsundoku” is made up of two characters that mean “pile” and “read” and basically means to “buy books to make piles”, with the implication that those books don’t get read. The nightstand books tend to reveal who we want to be, […]

  • The “known unknown” vs the “unknown unknown”

    Unplanned Risk I run a startup and there’s a bunch of risks I plan for (competitive, talent, data breach) and a long list of minor ones I don’t plan for – the “known unknown” vs the “unknown unknown”. Today I found out about a major risk I had not planned for that I’m hoping does […]

  • Merry Xmas Dee

    For some reason Mom comes to mind more often on the anniversary of her passing than on her birthday. Maybe it’s the proximity to Christmas and her love of the celebration and her deep-seated faith. Maybe personal-tragedy creates deeper grooves in the soul than some collection of days we sporadically celebrated. We mark the official […]

  • J’ai envie

    For work I’ve always got a panoply of Amazon devices that spring into action if I utter the phrase “Alexa” above a whisper. Today at lunch I was enjoying a little Tuna Ahi at my desk and one of the voice boxes started to autoplay a new Amazon Original series called “Romanov”. The premise isn’t […]

  • Get any tree you want, I said

    It looked great decorated with just white lights and silver bells.

  • NYC 24

    With school starting up and our partnership in full effect, I slightly raised the bar for NY travel these past three months. I got some snow, made it out to Connecticut a bunch of times, and enjoyed some Rockefeller Ice Skating. The recent highlight has definitely been Springsteen on Broadway…holy crap that was great. I’ve […]

  • Blasts of Entertainment Genius

    Every now and then there are singular great moments of television. Some are dramatic and exactly where you expect to find them (Hill Street Blues, West Wing, NYPD Blue, The Newsroom. Family Ties [At this Moment]), some are comedic and seem to be a little more fleeting (Uncle Arthur/Darrin – Bewitched, The Rock singing “Shake […]

  • Fortnite has Arrived

    For the past six or eight months I’ve heard about the massive online game that is one part Minecraft and one part Hunger Games. Within Ford’s class, it’s split about 50/50 of those-who-do and those-who-don’t. I’ve read enough on kids and video games – everything from the important role they play for developing boys and […]

  • Is “partial” just “pretending”

    I recently saw the investment memorandum for a company called Yulong Eco-Materials which is enabling for the fractional ownership of fine art. I think this means that you can own 2% of a Monet or a Fabergé egg. This does not resonate with me in the least. I guess the art market is hot, but […]

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