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I spent all day today attending a leadership summit from the fantastic folks at RRE Ventures and it was great. This one slide (of which I snuck a discrete photo) is so spot on it’s scary, and largely reflects, in my view, the biggest difference between people who are succeeding in their careers and those…

My favorite recent reddit discovery is /r/WordAvalanches. It’s a wonderful collection of grammatically correct tongue twisters that build on a common sound, phoneme or rhyming structure, always, of course, introduced with a setup. For instance, “The guy who sketches crossbreed dogs is suitable for the role.” In other words, “The labradoodle doodle dude’ll do.” Another…

I love my cast iron pan. I love that I can use it to cook anything, as long as I clean and season it properly afterwards. It has made me pancakes, omelettes, crepes, spinach, onions, mushrooms, steak, chicken, lamb, liver, and once, hearts. Most of all, my cast iron has years of history baked into…

Since Jan 7 I’ve completely stopped eating sugar, and it’s gonna kill me. It’s not just that sugar is in everything, which it is. I can’t eat fruit, baked goods, chocolate or almost any snack, drink juice, get a caffeine fix without black coffee which I hate… I’m reduced to a diet of cheese, nuts,…

Today my parents called me to help them find their wifi password, because apparently they think I do IT support for a living. Since I don’t have their wifi password (why would I?), I walked them through logging into their router settings using the defaults, on the one device that was already connected to the…

I was discussing Indian politics with a friend, a topic which admittedly I know very little about. But I do know that Modi came to power, like Trump, on a wave of (in his case) Hindu nationalism, and has, at the least, expressed controversial ideas about Hindu nationalism in the past, and possibly is even…

My grandfather turns 93 or 94 today. We actually don’t know, because when he arrived at Auschwitz, rather than being sentenced to death in the gas chamber, he may have survived by making himself a bit older to impress the selection officer. On the other hand, he may have made himself younger after the war,…

“Alexa, snooze.” “Alexa, snooze.” “Alexa, snooze.” “Alexa, turn off alarm.” “Alexa, play Morning Hype playlist on Spotify.” “Alexa, play MORNING HYPE playlist on Spotify.” “Alexa, turn on coffee machine.” “Alexa, turn on lights.” “Alexa, turn on BEDROOM lights.” “Alexa, lights to twenty-five percent.” “Alexa, BEDROOM lights to twenty-five percent.” “Alexa, order me an Uber at…

If Trump decides he’s going to use a ‘state of emergency’ to fund his border wall, well, he might end up actually, finally crossing the line. The line is the difference between a democratically elected president doing something that the opposition, and even many in his own party, find distasteful or deplorable–crackdown on immigration and…

Watch this video. This video is amazing to me–amazing–for so many reasons. How could today’s kids…not…get…Seinfeld??? What’s astounding to me is an episode like “The Outing,” an episode which won a GLAAD Media Award for its portrayal of LGBT issues, and mockery of homophobia, was interpreted by today’s youth as all but an endorsement of…