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Crypto rabbit-hole: the saga continues.

Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are my own and do not reflect the view of any third party. This is not a recommendation to buy or…
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ETH bulls are doomsday preppers. Scenario analysis for high utility token value.

I recently re-read John Pfeffer’s excellent paper: An (Institutional) Investor’s Take on Cryptoassets (the full paper is linked at the…
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Cap Table Simulator

Cap Table Simulator

An interactive cap table simulator to help answer the eternal question: what will this financing do to my ownership?
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Building your own Deep Learning dream machine

Building your own Deep Learning dream machine

How to build your own Deep Learning dream machine: hardware, software, configurations, etc.
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Lessons of History: summary in bullets

Lessons of History: summary in bullets

Bullet point summary of the amazing “The Lessons of History” by Will and Ariel Durant.
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ICOs are charity fundraisers

ICOs are charity fundraisers

As US regulatory agencies weigh-in (FinCEN, CFTC, SEC), I propose ICOs are in fact charities
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Getting up to speed on crypto

Getting up to speed on crypto

A primer on what to read, watch, and who to follow to get up to speed on cryptoassets.
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The next chapter

After 4.5 years as Parsable’s CEO, I’m passing the baton. I’m excited to announce that Lawrence Whittle — formerly our Chief Revenue…
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Negotiation Cheat Sheet

Negotiation Cheat Sheet

Back in October last year, I wrote about the most valuable book I read in 2016, Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss.
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What jobs will be left for us humans? What I learned by challenging some industry experts.

On Tuesday, I was honored to lead two roundtable discussions for the Influencer Series on the topic of Fulfilling the Promise of Industrial…
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Digitization isn’t enough — Lessons from WEF

A few weeks ago the World Economic Forum invited some of the folks driving tech strategy in Oil & Gas to help workshop their Digital…
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Read this book.

I thought I’d learned what I needed to know about negotiation. I went to a prestigious business school and took their negotiation class…
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Thoughts on Entrepreneurship

It was a great honor to recently come back to my alma mater, Rice University, to give the opening keynote at the Rice Alliance for…
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Culture: Drafting your team’s Constitution

Culture: Drafting your team’s Constitution

Culture matters — but why, and what does it even mean?
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Parsable Raises $20M from Global Industrial Firms to Eliminate Paper

Parsable Raises $20M from Global Industrial Firms to Eliminate Paper

I’m honored that Parsable has received an investment of $20 million from a consortium of the world’s largest industrial firms, including…
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Protecting against Identity Theft

I was recently the victim of an SSN doxxing + identity theft attack. In the process of securing myself as best I could from said attack, I…
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