I was friends with Debra Larsen and Bruce Bockmann (who was Morgan’s most playful partner, choosing once, when I was a young associate, to introduce us to a new client with our roles reversed)

Somewhere in the world, someone from a developing country is spending their day translating Western voicemails into emails. I sincerely hope that this is more than human error, mine or theirs.

Non geometric phenomena bore me. Geometric phenomena change the world.

Travel when you are young: Youthful unemployment is one of our most depressing economic phenomena. It seems patently unfair that, after years of academic exertion, graduates are deprived of rewarding employment But this economic reality, which shows no sign of abating in the Western World, has one profound advantage. It allows youth to reverse the

Terminal illness is a great way to sort out your friends. But don’t set the bar too high. People have their own lives.

Be aware of the time expectations of your capital base before you let them in as investors into your company.

Drop.io’s other fixed cost is development. I think of promotion in terms of marketing and customer acquisition costs. Sam thinks about exposing the blogs to your service and letting their audience promote or pan it. With that mentality, the one functionality you have to get right is product development. Drop.io is programmed exclusively in the most

Find irony and humor in the most challenging of circumstances. I doubt that you can find humor, other than the most macabre, in a serious stroke. I can. I was cared for by a Filipino nurse, one of the most beautiful women that I have ever encountered. One day, while she was dressing me, my right hand, the stroke impacted side, brushed by her left b

Sam, unlike me, did not make the mistake of confusing technology with a virtual existence. Upon grasping that technology enabled isolation, I gravitated immediately to a hermitic life. Part of this was based on my medical realities, like a major stroke, but most of it was not. It turned out, for me, to be an unsatisfactory existence. I now crave hu