New remote meeting timing etiquette: Start on the hour, cap it at 45 mins
If you read this, chances are you spend a significant amount of your day in meetings — these days, likely video meetings. During the first lockdown, it seemed like…
Tag: ideas
Foo Camp takeaways 2015
I came back from a whirlwind trip to Foo Camp just last week. Now that the dust has settled, with a bit of distance, it’s time to look…
Opening up expert knowledge for social change
### tl;dr How can we make traditionally expensive expert knowledge available for free for social causes and communities in need? ### Sharing professional advice freely & openly I…
Starting an #idea dump
I the spirit of David Friedman, I’m also starting an [idea dump](http://www.ironicsans.com/2013/02/coming_soon_an_idea_dump.html). To some degree, I’ve been using this blog to do just that anyway for many years.…
An Entrepreneur-in-Residence program for non-VC firms?
Wherever you look you see corporations trying to get closer to startups, variably in terms of reputation, release cycles, culture or reputation. One of the more common ways…
A discreet hotline for politicians to get tech advice. Worth doing?
We keep seeing politicians making decisions about technology and the web that seem odd and ill-informed. In some cases, this might be due to lobbying, and that would…
Palomar5 (some impressions)
Even though a few friends of mine have been directly involved in the project, I had been watching Palomar5 from a distance. (Mostly because I was literally, physically…