Abie Cohen

“A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.” – Kevin Kelly

What are the big questions you’re wrestling with right now? What topics are you wanting to dig deeper into? What project is top of mind? What’s the last word that popped into your head? 

Any and all of the answers to these questions are great buckets to create collections around. Or it could be as simple as a word - “Rest.”

the white pill—used to describe those who look at the challenges of our day and feel instinctively that moments of change can be moments of possibility. Their feelings and actions are rooted in hope.

The more you see, the more skeptical you become. Optimize for skepticism and curiosity. Having been a VC and invested as an angel in well over 100 companies, my inbox flows with ideas of all kinds from aspiring and repeat entrepreneurs. In the earlier days, I’d get excited by ideas especially the first time I saw them. But over time, I soon... See more

What Jerry is talking about is not adverse selection. It’s the second way of increasing convexity: funding the far-out-there-ideas, the Big If True ones. It’s one of the reasons I love the general venture zeitgeist around deep tech right now. If crazy bets like underwater energy storage, transformer-specialised chips, or tiny semi fabs succeed,... See more