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The Net Fishing Guy
At a beach south of Hilo I spent about 20 minutes watching this guy watch the water. Bunched under his arm was a fishing net. He was standing on some rocks, staring into a pool. Leaning forward, ready to strike. Like a leopard. Every minute or so he would stand up, loosening his stance. Readjust,…
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An Awkward Twitter Exchange With A Former Employer
edit: apparently, this article has gotten a fair bit of attention from Hacker News. There’s a link here. edit 2: the HN link was flagged and removed. edit 3: like adults, Kevin and I talked out our differences. I still think he came off as exceedingly callous, and we still fundamentally disagree on several core issues here.…
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Rothenberg’s Wake: Does One Fallen Domino Signal Future Failures in Micro VC?
Earlier this week, Backchannel published a piece chronicling the “Trouble In The House of Rothenberg”. For those unfamiliar with the story, Mike Rothenberg is – or, was – an uber-connected 31 year-old solo general partner of Rothenberg Ventures (which changed its name to “Frontier Tech Ventures” this week). He was known for being one of the best-connected…
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Notes on Twilio, Line And The Open (?) Window
After several quarters of disappointing news from public tech companies (primarily those affiliated with Jack Dorsey, but I digress) and story after story about private tech companies’ reluctance to go public, Twilio may have blown open the tech IPO window on Thursday. Making its debut on the NYSE under symbol TWLO, at the price of…
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SF Was Killing Me
Reading Larry Finn’s blog post on the San Francisco Bubble prompted me to resurrect this ~1640-word stream of consciousness from the Drafts folder of my WordPress installation. I wrote this approximately 4 months ago. In lieu of tying up its ending into some nice concluding thoughts, I’ll just publish it here as is. Almost exactly two months…
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This One Weird iOS9 Bug Made Me Briefly Speculate About TouchID’s Potential for My Laptop
For the life of me I cannot seem to reproduce the bug, but I swear to the deity of your choosing that this morning, my iPhone 6 (currently running iOS 9.0 build 13A344) entered Apple Pay mode while it was plugged into my rMBP. I have no card readers on my couch, but it got…
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Best of The Halcyon Days
It’s been over two years since I published something to this blog, to which I published assiduously when I was in college at The University of Chicago, but began to neglect when I left to work on Mergenote, a startup of mine. As I figure out what I want to do with my personal homepage,…
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JDR Gets Down to Business, & HD Takes a Week Off
I will be taking a week off from writing effective today. I’m in the midst of tidying up a business plan for a venture I’m launching with two friends; between finishing that and getting in touch with lawyers and finding developers, a decent marketing/design guy/girl, and getting content for a website together, I’m kind of…