Carl Richard Unger, a notably minor figure in academic history (no offense intended, of course) was a Norwegian historian and philologist in the 1800s. He studied philology but did not receive a degree as he was quite horrible at mathematics, a subject compulsory for philologists. …

(Last updated 23 March 2019) I am insanely into coffee. Far more than I’d like to admit. I’ve traveled well over three million miles and am more of a coffee fanatic than 98% of people I’ve ever met. And today I can tell you that Berlin is a coffee city…

I think the Entrepreneurial Class in our society gets failure very wrong. Failure doesn’t make any sense. As a concept, failure is a state, as in when a car or a machine fails and can’t recover. Failure is a perpetual, but that’s not how we fail. A few short years…

Is the Swatch Sistem51 the greatest $150 watch in history? — Quite possibly so. This is admittedly saying a lot and, of course, for the pedants out there, we’re talking 2018 dollars. Obvi, in the early 60s, you could get a Don Draper Omega for not much more than $150. But on to today’s topic. I’ve spoken at length about Swatch…

It’s 2018 and there are legal conferences of some size and shape going on every week now. This is deeply insane. We desperately need a way to organize these conferences so that the very few meaningful ones are separated from the seemingly infinite number of others. We need an official…

Yes. I know I haven’t posted in a while. Busy with other non-watch related things. And, honestly, I haven’t been super excited about much in the watch world over the last few months. But I am now. And while it’s not something new, it’s a deeper appreciation of something too…

Awkwafina’s 2014 song about daydreaming could (and, I would argue, should) be remade about startup communities, notorious lands of deep illusion. Over the past weeks I’ve been reading about the reverse brain drain back to Canada or, depending upon who’s telling the tale, the many great Canadian minds choosing…

The world of legal innovation and legal technology thinks we’re smarter than other innovation worlds. (1) After all. We. Are. Lawyers. (2) The lyrics speak to the deceptions of shallow and popular leaders (3), those able to sway through their words and how they project themselves (4). The thesis…

This week, Y Combinator Partner Kat Mañalac wrote an excellent piece in which she set forth nine new categories where YC is requesting startup applicants. I know and like Kat. She’s whipsmart and a great fit for YC. I’m writing this today because I think a lot about the Brick…