Abie Cohen

Imagine being at Mount Sinai: The Exodus happens! You and your family are freed from bondage. You have every reason to think your life is about to be as good as you’ve always dreamed it could be. Instead, you’re left wandering the desert for 40 years. It’s miserable, and hard, and feels like it might be endless. Finally, your time comes! Or you thi... See more

When we’re mindful of what we feel in our body, she says, our mind naturally settles in the present. This happens without effort—and it makes us calmer, more receptive, and better attuned to the “boundless, indefinable, ungraspable” nature of awareness.

Weird is interesting . My friend Jared recently joined Union Square Ventures as a venture partner and wrote a short essay about the consumer applications we should be looking for in the age of AI - and how likely they are to appear “weird” at first glance. Indeed, new social paradigms that consume our psyche tend to appear strange when we first use... See more

Having them is literally like outsourcing your heart and letting pieces of it walk around the world completely unprotected. But ironically, that doesn’t actually make them extensions of us. Like I think the reason those pieces of heart feel unprotected is because they’re still mine, but not part of me anymore.

Effective fundraisers have mastered the art of risk framing, demonstrating the ability to clearly articulate the risks associated with each milestone. And then, reassure the investors on how they will meet each one of them. In return, investors have developed standardized expectations for each round of fundraising.

In that context, the onion theory ... See more

But the trend is clear: answers to even very hard questions are becoming cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. Which means the ability to ask them is getting more and more and more valuable.

In other words, the cheaper Grossmann becomes, the more valuable Einstein becomes.