Abie Cohen

The history of progress is the continued commoditization of once-scarce things.

Commoditization is the mechanism of compounding . It’s only by turning previously rare and unwieldy things into building blocks that we can build bigger and bigger things.

Its biggest beneficiaries are those who recognize what’s becoming commoditized and what will become... See more

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 more

We want to use more compute per person than any other fund.

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.

“The best way to think is to write.”

What is true spiritually is true economically, too.

Last week, Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley discussed how Tech has grown from 5% to 15% of global GDP over the last 15 years, largely owing to faster growth rates.

As software companies get fitter and stack new S-curves of growth, later stage companies become highly effective capital allocators - which is why we’ve seen Tech outstrip the rest of the ec... See more