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Back in October, my good friend Ranjan Das, the Managing Director of SAP India, passed away of a massive heart attack. He was an avid exerciser, and had just run a marathon earlier this year. I’d never lost a close friend before this year, and in the span of just a few weeks, I lost … Continue reading A Tribute To Ranjan Das
“Man, I don’t know why everybody’s sitting around here like it’s something new. Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods! It’s not like he looks like Seal. It’s not like he’s not going to have a whole bunch of women. He’s Tiger Woods! I’m surprised 400 girls didn’t come out. It’s Tiger Woods y’all. It’s Tiger Woods … Continue reading Quote of the Day: Gilbert Arenas on Tiger Woods
We all like to think that we do the right thing. But it’s very easy to get lazy and reverse the causality–to believe that something is right because we do it. White House Chief of Staff Rahm “Rahmbo” Emanuel famously said of the Great Recession, “Never allow a crisis to go to waste.” Yet pushing … Continue reading Your Way Or The Right Way?
“Democracy, and the political freedom it almost always strengthens, is the least worst form of government (a fact that even recalcitrant, anti-modern regimes in Islamabad, Tehran, and Berkeley grudgingly acknowledge in at least symbolic displays of pluralism).” —Reason Damn, I love a good Berkeley joke. Suck it, hippies!
59% of Americans consider themselves “fiscally conservative and socially liberal” (I’m one of them). Yet here in California, a gerrymandered state results in rule by extremists. Tom Campbell is one of the last FC/SL Republican politicians left in the state. I would argue that this brand of pragmatic beliefs and policy focus is the California … Continue reading Come Meet Tom Campbell on November 3
From Rick Reilly’s column for ESPN, on naked athletes:One afternoon, Jenny Kellner, then of the New York Daily News, was covering the Jets. She entered the locker room only to find one of the team’s stars buck naked. He walked up to her, pointed to his babymaker and said, “Hey, Jenny, do you know what … Continue reading Line of the Decade: On Naked Athletes
“Media experts have been warning for months that American consumers will face starvation if Hollywood does not provide someone for them to put on a pedestal, worship, envy, download sex tapes of, and then topple and completely destroy.” Never has the tabloid-celebrity complex been better described in a more concise and biting way.
“The point is not to keep 76-year-old Polanski off the streets or help his victim feel safe. The point is that drugging and raping a child, then leaving the country before you can be sentenced for it, is behavior our society should not — and at least in theory, does not — tolerate, no matter … Continue reading Paragraph of the Day: On Roman Polanski and Justice
I was interviewed for an article on angel investing, and I thought you might want to see my full responses. Will let you know when the article appears. * * * Q: How did you become an angel investor? I began my angel investing career in 2005, when I invested in a friend’s business. Since … Continue reading Angel Investing Q&A
image courtesy of HubSpot There’s a lot of social in the air these days. I was chatting with Jeremiah Owyang of the Altimeter Group, and he said that there was even talk of scrapping the term “Enterprise 2.0” in favor of “Social Business”. While I do believe that social is necessary, it’s definitely not sufficient, … Continue reading Why Getting Social Is Necessary (But Not Sufficient) For Business