QR Codes and Innovation — When restaurants first begin reopening for outdoor dining last spring, many began using QR codes as a way to access the menu. Since then, I’ve had many casual conversations with people about whether this puts QR codes into the mainstream. Fred Wilson has a blog post this week along those…

Hiring is Difficult. Ben Horowitz made used an excellent analogy for hiring. I’m going to butcher the quote and the context because it came in the middle of a three-hour podcast, and I didn’t timestamp when it happened. (Funny enough, I can see exactly where I was when I heard…

Built Environment Progress and Ambition Dan Wang made a fascinating point on the Sinica podcast with Kaiser Kuo. He says: For a lot of [people in] the U.S. the built environment around them hasn’t changed a great deal…folks are, I think, somewhat limited in what they can imagine can be…

SpaceX, the FAA, and safety regulation. We’ll start off with the dust-up between SpaceX and the FAA regarding the SN8 test on December 9th. Long story short, SpaceX went ahead with the test even though they didn’t receive a launch authority waiver. …

On New Year’s Resolutions I don’t understand the anti-resolution crowd. The arguments against making resolutions seem to fall into one of three categories. First, people will say, “What is special about January 1st? If you want to make a change, make it any time of the year.” This is valid…

I love endurance sport, but it wasn’t a straightforward road into it. I’ve started having people ask me about how to start running or biking so lately during my workouts I’ve begun thinking about the things I’ve learned. As usual, to better my thinking, I’ve decided to write down and…

In Part One, I laid out how careers aren’t tightly scripted plays that we must plan in advance and follow to a T, they’re closer to random. However, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t plan. In Part Two, I laid out how to begin evaluating what to do by looking inward. …

If you haven’t read parts one or two to this series, you may want to start there. In part one I wrote about how we can’t really strategically plan our whole career, but we still need to think about it. In part two I wrote about how to think about…

If you haven’t read the introduction to this series, you may want to start here. I believe there are two ways people can get into trouble when evaluating career options, either too thinking too narrowly or too broadly. The narrow view often sounds like this: “I’ll continue doing what I’m…