Fair and Reasonable
I was on the phone with an old friend last week. We were talking about a few things around a negotiation, and he said something profound. “I just want things
Fireside Chat On University Entrepreneurship at CU Boulder with Bill Aulet
I’ll be doing a fireside chat on university entrepreneurship at CU Boulder on 7/26 from 10:30 to noon with Bill Aulet, Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT
The Shock of Mortality
In June, Amy and I had three friends die. One was a mentor of Amy’s from Wellesley, one was the father of a close friend, and one was the wife
We Lead or We Participate
Over the years, I’ve been in many multi-party negotiations. I don’t know the maximum number of participants in a single negotiation, but I’m sure it’s greater than ten active n
Julie Sandler Joins Pioneer Square Labs As A Managing Director
In October 2015, Pioneer Square Labs launched. We led the financing, and I joined the board to work more closely with Greg Gottesman, Geoff Entress, Mike Galgon, and Ben Gilbert
In The End, Entropy Always Wins
I woke up to an email from a close friend of 25 years that his wife had passed away unexpectedly last night. She’d been fighting cancer for several years, had
Women Forward in Technology Scholarship Program
Are you a woman who is an undergraduate or graduate student enrolled full-time at an accredited university in the US, in a STEM field? If you are, you now have an opportunity
I Don't Accept This Apology
I don’t believe that one starts an apology with the sentence “The past 24 hours have been the darkest of my life.” In my world, the apology is to another
Munger's Psychology of Human Misjudgment
I’m a huge Charlie Munger fan. I spent the weekend stewing on a few things, including why human beings do what they do. Andrew Wilkinson sent me this animated and
A Clever Short Story About Discrimination
On May 23rd, I got an email from one of my favorite sci-fi writers (and close friend) Eliot Peper. It was titled “My very first scifi short story” and said: