It’s amazing how Wes Anderson can create a good story out of any material! The way he films … Continue reading “The Grand Budapest Hotel is fantastic!”

As you can see from my article on The Evolution of Marketplaces, Craigslist is facing a great unbundling. … Continue reading “Recommendations for Craigslist”

Anand Iyer, the Chief Product Officer of Threadflip, just wrote a thoughtful blog post on how to build … Continue reading “Fantastic article on how to build trust in modern marketplaces to achieve liquidity”

In the early days of the web Craigslist’s horizontal listing based marketplace was all things to all people … Continue reading “The Evolution of Marketplaces”

Bitcoin confuses people. They don’t grasp what it is and how it works. The two presentations below are … Continue reading “Great presentations on Bitcoin”

It’s hard to describe why, but somehow I find the sensation of gliding in untracked powder quasi-spiritual. For … Continue reading “There is something magical about skiing in powder!”

Andy Weir’s book gripped me from the start. I typically don’t like books written in the first person, … Continue reading “The Martian is Robinson Crusoe on Mars”

It’s also the best book he co-wrote with Mark Greaney. I suppose the bar is not very high … Continue reading “Command Authority is Tom Clancy’s best book in years”

In The Case for Optimism I outlined both why we are better off than we have ever been … Continue reading “50 reasons why this is the greatest time ever”

My good friend Saar Gur who is a general partner at Charles River Ventures just posted a brilliant … Continue reading “Fantastic presentation on customer acquisition”

I spent most of 2013 living with the consequences of the life changing decisions I made in late … Continue reading “2013: The Dawn of a New Beginning”

We live in difficult times. Financial crisis, sovereign debt crisis, euro crisis, Syrian conflict, global warming. We are … Continue reading “The Case for Optimism”

Last year I finally resolved my internal cognitive dissonance between my profound optimism about humanity and my pessimism … Continue reading “Video of my LeWeb Keynote: The Case for Optimism”

Loic Lemeur asked Jeff Clavier and me to react to Arnaud Montebourg’s presentation at LeWeb and ask him … Continue reading “LeWeb 2013 Interview of Arnaud Montebourg”

I found a wallet on the floor in the Promenade des Anglais this Sunday. I was thinking of … Continue reading “Good karma”