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Sep 7, 2021

Random reflection: feeling home in the developing world

Random reflection: feeling home in the developing world Feel loopy trying to stay up for my flight back tomorrow and to get back on schedule, and started reflecting on my Istanbul trip, and ended up word vomiting this in what was going to be a short message in response to…

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Oct 14, 2020

How to be good at advice

People have different style preferences. So much of what makes advice good is the right style. . So I randomly came up with this system last night (applicable to any advice that is given or received in any kind of relationship, not specifically formal advisor/advisee relationships) to be good at advice Different levels of advice Level 0 — words of encouragement and acknowledgement: You don’t actually give advice.

Advice

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Apr 23, 2020

What if stay-at-home orders had instead been stay-at-home rights?

Guidance to shut down all non-essential services; business owners have right to defy Employees have right to work from home; protected from retaliation Retail, restaurant, other in-person workers have right to leave of absence; can collect PUA (Pandemic Unemployment Assistance — $600 per week allocated for those unemployed due to…

Covid 19

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What if stay-at-home orders had instead been stay-at-home rights?
What if stay-at-home orders had instead been stay-at-home rights?

Apr 9, 2020

Chapter II: Another 24 Months, Another 24 Books

This is the part 2 following 33 Books I’ve Read and Reread in the Past 3 Years from March 2018 (2 years ago). I love to read and here are a few select picks from the past couple years. …

Books

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Oct 4, 2019

Products for the Aspirational Self

Building Products That Help People be Their Aspirational Selves Without Going Bankrupt It’s hard to succeed with a product that only makes money if people behave as their aspirational selves. Your churn is too high. Examples: Gym memberships Goal setting apps Meditation apps If you want to make money on these you have to get paid upfront or on a lock-in subscription…

Design

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Products for the Aspirational Self
Products for the Aspirational Self

Apr 3, 2018

Who should not be a VC

I remember sitting in on a meeting with an angel investor who decided to pass on the deal and asking why. Investor: “She wasn’t likable enough.” Me: “Oh yea, what did she do?” Investor: “You heard the way she was talking to me.” Me: “Yea… she was quite direct I…

Venture Capital

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Who should not be a VC
Who should not be a VC

Mar 26, 2018

What is a ‘bad person’?

I went back and forth for a long time whether people are black and white or many shades of grey; whether morality is relative or absolute. To make sense of a worldview based on a framework of moral relativism I had to do all sorts of mental gymnastics and the…

Philosophy

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What is a ‘bad person’?
What is a ‘bad person’?

Mar 15, 2018

33 Books I’ve Read and Re-Read in the Past 3 Years

I love to read. There’s richness and complexity in the concepts you absorb through reading that you can’t get from listening to talks or having someone explain something to you. My reading list skews towards the philosophical, historical, sciences, startups and venture capital. …

Books

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33 Books I’ve Read and Re-Read in the Past 3 Years
33 Books I’ve Read and Re-Read in the Past 3 Years

Jan 30, 2017

How A Startup in Dubai Can Succeed

When you think of Silicon Valley what do you think of? Maybe you think of Elon Musk going to space or Peter Thiel searching for immortality. Maybe you think of scrappy entrepreneurs using breakthrough technologies to change the world. In Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs benefit from networks that provide insider information…

Startup

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How A Startup in Dubai Can Succeed
How A Startup in Dubai Can Succeed

Aug 2, 2016

Successful Emerging Markets Startups Solve Emerging Markets Problems

Successful venture capital in fragmented, emerging markets differs from the developed world. Since WOMENA’s launch a year and a half ago I have seen over eight hundred pitch decks, listened to over a hundred live pitches, conducted due diligence on about thirty startups, and finally overseen investment in four startups…

Startup

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Successful Emerging Markets Startups Solve Emerging Markets Problems
Successful Emerging Markets Startups Solve Emerging Markets Problems
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