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Two things I’ve been reflecting on this morning – my relationship with retaining & reflecting on meeting information and my mindfulness journey. Jotted some thoughts about both below.  According to my Google Calendar insights, I’m now usually in meetings about 27-30 hours a week between portfolio and new startup founders, existing and new investors, internal …

what I talk about when I talk about running [and some side tangents] Read More »

Tonight I’m writing about a topic that is dear to my heart – how to have a quality conversation in an introductory call. Coincidentally, it’s a question I’ve received five times recently – which is usually my proxy for sitting down to write a longer piece on it. We often discuss the technical skills that …

on quality conversations: how to have intro calls that don’t suck Read More »

When I grow up, I want to . . . My lovely RWS professor assigned this blog today, and I wanted to include the words she used to underline its importance: If we don’t have goals, we probably won’t achieve the things we dream about. If we don’t identify those things, we may not reach …

A Peek into My Future… Read More »

James Paul Gee, a professor at UCLA wrote an introduction to language. And not just grammar, I mean real language. How the context of a situation underscores the necessary syntax we use. It’s why we have such a hard time interpreting foreign languages. Without context, those words are just bunches of letters, clumped together like …

Mushfaking & Maintaining a Unique Discourse Read More »