I derive a lot of pleasure from watching street fights (on YouTube, obviously, not live fights in the streets). So I’ve watched a lot of them. I also enjoy professional martial arts, but street fights have an incomparable raw quality to them, a feeling that anything is possible…
My job requires me to look at a bunch of rent contracts. The other day I was analyzing a list of them that looked something like this (I recreated the…
One of the things I ask myself when deciding what to write about for this newsletter is “What are the things I know that I wish more people knew…
For New Year’s Eve, I traveled with some friends to the beach. On the 30th, I started feeling a sore throat and a bit of fever. I ended up spending…
When I began writing this essay, few people outside of tech and VC circles were talking about the metaverse. I figured I would explain what it was, who…
On a flight in 1987, Alan Krueger sat next to a woman called Ginna Ashenfelter. Krueger was just finishing his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard…
If you know something about evolution, but not enough, you may think it has something to do with “the survival of the species.” I hate to break it to…
Whenever I would travel as a kid, I had this obsession with making my suitcase as light as possible. I thought of it as an act of manliness: taking too…
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