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2019

Board Basics

May 25, 201912 min read

Written for a dear friend who recently joined her first Board.by David WeeklyMay 24, 2019...

Over the last few years, my wife Rebecca and I have continued to discuss and iterate on our approach to charitable giving and I think we have something that we are happy with. I’ve shared it privately with a number of my friends and they found it use...

Medcorder Secures $2.5m in Funding

Apr 26, 20193 min read

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...

What You Think About Matters.

Apr 25, 20191 min read

If 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...

TDCommons: A Treasure Trove of IP

Jan 3, 20194 min read

If 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...

2018

The Next Chapter

Dec 13, 20184 min read

Friends; 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...

Advice on Note-taking

Dec 8, 20183 min read

A coworker of mine recently wrote to me asking for advice on how I take notes. Here is what I wrote back:...

medcorder: Helping People Talk About Health

Jun 26, 20183 min read

When 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...

An Introduction to Internal Product Management

Apr 3, 201810 min read

aka "Building Great First Party Tools"...

A Skeptic’s Guide to Discourse

Feb 20, 201811 min read

It’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…!...

2017

Reflection on Systems: Hype & Doubt

Dec 8, 20174 min read

It’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...

Practice Interview Grading

Nov 8, 20171 min read

I gave a colleague a practice interview today. They asked me before we began to at the end say what I would have graded them and if I would recommend they be hired or not....

Apple Watch Series 3 Review

Oct 15, 20178 min read

This 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...

On confusing position and velocity: process and risk in the corporation

Oct 4, 20178 min read

I 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...

Consumer Tech: Failing to Innovate

Sep 26, 20174 min read

I’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....

Medium and Message: Thoughts on Our Devices

Sep 16, 20175 min read

It 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...

August Meditations

Aug 17, 20172 min read

Your heroes are more flawed than you realize, Your enemies, more noble....

Anatomy of a Malware Injection

Aug 10, 201721 min read

Today 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...

Tips on Fatherhood

May 1, 201711 min read

Stuff I wish I could have read about before becoming a dad....

2016

Acing Your Product Manager Interview

Dec 5, 201610 min read

I’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...

California 2016 Elections

Oct 14, 201610 min read

We 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...

California 2016 Fall Elections

Oct 14, 20169 min read

We 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...

What I Think

Aug 18, 201625 min read

Many 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...

Clouseau: A Postmortem

Jul 26, 201610 min read

How I vetted and dumped a startup idea in ~20 hours and for under $1000....

The Mechanics of AngelList Syndicates

Jul 19, 201612 min read

for Investors & Startups, by David E. Weekly, written mid-2016...

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