The Verge just posted an article about a new film, “General Magic“, the most important company to come out of Silicon Valley that no one’s ever heard of. That is a startup that brings back old memories en masse, as it was one of the big platforms that my first startup, Nimble, wrote and sold software. For those of you who never heard of it (which should be 99.999% of you), General...
Speaking of luck, a few years ago I volunteer to help an organization that hosted the Dalai Lama in Seattle 10 years ago. Two months ago, members of this organization were invited to Dharmashala, India to have an audience, and I was invited along. I write books and blogs. I teach story telling. But no words can describe this experience. Neither do the following videos, but they do demonstrate...
A lot of people reach out to me for advice or to sell me on whatever they are doing. Some of that is fun and interesting, but much of it is in a form that wastes my time and theirs. That waste too often is due to to messages that fail to explain what the sender does and others that use hundreds of words when one sentence would be sufficient. When you are sending a message (via LinkedIn, email...
What if 99% of success is luck? Not just success in startups (which is what I do, teach, and write about), but also success in life? If you are following this blog, you know I’ve been thinking about income inequality, digging into the questions of its root cause, and potential solutions. But what if there is no solution, as it’s true cause is a series of random chances, some good...
