Hey everyone! Many of you know that I went full time on Medcorder earlier this year. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s an app focused on improving decision making in medical care by helping patients and families get the most out of their time with a d...
Continue readingIf you think that life is meritocratic, or your country, or your company, you’re likely to believe that outcomes are strictly due to skills. This will cause you to falsely conjoin an analysis of your decision-making skills with an analysis of the qua...
Continue readingIf you talk to a corporate patent attorney about why the company files patents, you may hear things about building a defensive portfolio, creating valuable long-term assets, or protecting key developments from exploitation by competitors. But increas...
Continue readingFriends; after four great years at Google and before that a year and a half of great times at Facebook it is time for me to return to startup-world. January 25th will be my last day at Google and I'll at that point be commuting the much shorter dista...
Continue readingA coworker of mine recently wrote to me asking for advice on how I take notes. Here is what I wrote back:...
Continue readingWhen about two years ago my dad was diagnosed with the prostate cancer that ended up killing him, we had no idea what to do. There was a lot of information coming at us, fast. Most of this information was related to my dad in conversations with docto...
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Continue readingIt’s easier to give advice than to follow it! The below should be considered the bar I’d like to hold myself to, even if often I fall short of it…!...
Continue readingIt’s difficult to predict the future. More specifically, there is error in estimating the derivative of the economic value of a given technology over time. Errors in this estimation are underdamped and have poor impedance matching to true underlying...
Continue readingThis is my first time with an Apple Watch of any sort; my last smartwatch was a Pebble which was helpful but utilitarian. When I saw LTE connectivity from my wrist with built-in Siri capability, capacity to make phone calls apart from my phone and al...
Continue readingI have seen large and well-funded organizations use their social and monetary capital to acquire large and highly experienced teams. The great danger with this is the ensuing confidence of success. To visualize this linearly, that collective experien...
Continue readingI’m feeling baffled. I’m on a three year old laptop with a two year old smartphone and a four year set top box hooked up to a six year old receiver and projector....
Continue readingIt was a generation ago that Marshall McLuhan noted that the medium was the message. It was very apt. Norman’s Design of Everyday Things gave further insight that objects are inherently good at helping us perform certain things and not good at perfor...
Continue readingYour heroes are more flawed than you realize, Your enemies, more noble....
Continue readingToday I got a number of pretty questionable “friend requests” from young females on Facebook with zero mutual friends and with very racy profile pics. Of course they were fake, but I was curious to safely explore what was at the bottom of the rabbit...
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Continue readingI’m a Senior Product Manager at Google and was also a PM at Facebook. I’ve done over 100 product management interviews, shadowed PM hiring committees, and created a class called “The Path to PM: Learning if Product Management is Right for You” throug...
Continue readingWe voted! I love that I sit down with my wife Rebeccahttp://www.facebook.com/rebecca.lipon to go through our ballots and discuss together. We don’t agree on everything but having a counterparty to talk things through with is fabulous. Maybe we should...
Continue readingWe voted! I love that I sit down with my wife Rebecca to go through our ballots and discuss together. We don’t agree on everything but having a counterparty to talk things through with is fabulous. Maybe we should have a “voting party” where everyone...
Continue readingMany people seem broadly nervous to write about their own personal political platform stances which may be nuanced and not in alignment with any one party or candidate, instead preferring to stump for a party and candidate and re-share uncritical pro...
Continue readingHow I vetted and dumped a startup idea in ~20 hours and for under $1000....
Continue readingfor Investors & Startups, by David E. Weekly, written mid-2016...
Continue readingSummary: Don’t ever put money into LendingClub. You can invest in seconds but will spend years of your life trying to get it out, and the returns are unimpressive....
Continue readingEquity compensation at several public companies like Google and Facebook is in the form of direct stock grants, yes. Employees can sell these shares once vested on the public market for full retail value during either an open trading window following...
Continue readingWhile this article correctly notes that a little negotiation at onboarding can result in significant gains, there are some serious errors in the suggested approach....
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