Abie Cohen
@abejcohen
Abie Cohen
- “A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.” – Kevin Kelly
- As a founder, the goal then becomes to metaphorically peel each layer of the onion — Each fundraising milestone turning into a set of risks being evaluated and sidelined. The earliest investors become the partners to help figure out what to focus on. Good pre-seed angels and investors are often described as “having taste” for good startups — In tru... See more
Fund II
Onion theory extrapolated out to milestone driven approach towards pre-seed investing
- Having this vessel that you’re motivated to fill encourages being more observant and analytical in daily life too.
Dan Wang 2023 letter
- When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything wi... See more
from More People Should Write by jsomers.net
- Data Provocation: Hospitals are broken and ripe for technological disruption. I have been following General Catalyst’s bold moves lately, including helping found several healthcare companies and most recently acquiring an entire healthcare system in the United States. My hope is that this leads to a vertically integrated re-imagination of healthca
... See morefrom The Rise of Open-Sourced R&D, How Communal Resourcefulness Will Protect Us, & Wild Data Provocations by Scott Belsky
Broken healthcare system
- “The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.”
— Steve Jobsfrom Brain Food: Happy Accidents
- “The best way to think is to write.”
from Brain Food: Happy Accidents
- laughter
I’ve been doing improv comedy for the last twelve years. Over that time I’ve realized there are at least two types of laughter you hear from the audience. One is a response to something clever or smart, like ‘ha ha I see what you did there, very nice.’ It’s a shallow sort of laugh and one that comes mainly from the mind.
The other - my favo... See moreOn laughter
- The world doesn’t reward the people with the best ideas. It rewards the people who are best at communicating ideas. Want to publish a bestseller or launch a startup? Want to spread your ideas across the Internet like schmear on a New York bagel? Then become a better writer .
from [Announcement] Write of Passage Is Now OPEN!
On the importance of writing.