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Re: Heading East

VincentWright — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 20:30:18 -0000

2-way tickets, right?

Re: That’s Not Fair

VincentWright — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:02:04 -0000

Why perpetuate such a stupid concept as that of "life is not fair.", Fred?

If life weren't fair, intelligence, education, hard work, creativity, and hope would be useless.

Love, itself, would be useless.

I'd wager that I've lost a greater percentage of value in life than anyone else likely to participate in this thread of yours.

However,
Life never stole my intellectual assets ... nor anything else from me.

Life never lied to me

Life never lied about me.

Life never conspired about me.

Life never poisoned my body.

But, PEOPLE did...

Individual people did.

SPECIFIC, individual people did.

I won't ever forget those specific people.

So, even in my current maddening circumstances, I blame specific people ... and with every breath I have remaining, I choose to praise the heck out of Life...

Life is AMAZING ... even when the people part of its creation sucks the natural joy out of you...

Re: Why Certain People (and Their Ideas) Succeed, According to Science

VincentWright — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 09:32:44 -0000

According to the description, shouldn't the formula be S = Q + r not S = Qr? (where + = and)

Re: Feedback

VincentWright — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:44:53 -0000

Over the past 15-20 years, I grew up on the email discussions and generally prefer them but, in the specific case of AVC.com, I think it'd be a rare strategic blunder for you to remove comments or even limit their size, Fred.

I love the idea that you've used both. (I remain amazed at your alacrity in responding to email messages, by the way...(especially considering your *real job* of managing so many portfolio companies..))

The choice is yours but, selfishly, man, I wish you'd just leave it as is until 2020 (|2025 :-))...

Re: Rethinking AVC

VincentWright — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:53:37 -0000

I love Seth Godin's thinking but, because he doesn't allow commenting even his best posts don't have as much meaning as yours.

Removing comments injures AVC.

(I know from 14 years of moderating comments on My Linkedin Power Forum and 11 years of moderating Brandergy that some commentators make you wanna remove their air supply. But, we should find ways of weakening them rather than removing comments. Removing comments is like removing C from AV...)

Have you considered doing like Jethro advised Moses and delegating a few responsibilities to community members you know, trust, and respect? If they're here and engaged, let 'em help you...

I vote that AVC remains as is but, with AVC Helpers...

Re: Raising A SAFE Or Convertible Note In Between Rounds

VincentWright — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:09:07 -0000

Wow... I know of at least 4 sets of professionals who should read this, *today*... (As always: Thanks, Fred...)

Re: Mark Leslie On Entrepreneurship, Leading, and Selling

VincentWright — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 11:44:41 -0000

Thanks for yet another great share, Fred. Highly informative. Highly enjoyable.

(Shared to Twitter and a few communities within Linkedin.)

Re: Funding Friday: Mobile App Controlled Paper Airplane

VincentWright — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:35:05 -0000

WOW! That looks like a lot of fun... (Family reunions, anyone???)

Re: Funding Friday: Grow Your Own Lampshade

VincentWright — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 07:16:51 -0000

Outstanding!

Re: Longer Tweets

VincentWright — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 07:46:57 -0000

Whatever incremental increase Twitter may choose, do it on a meritocracy.

(Perhaps consider: age of account, engagement, blocks(?), reportings, mutes, TYPES of followers, percentage of malicious bot followers (not all bots are bad), etc.

Accounts which threaten to annihilate 25+ Million human beings and/or deprive Millions of citizens of healthcare perhaps should be restricted to ~1 character per tweet...
might help the health of Twitter and humans...)

Re: September 11th – A Day Of Remembrance

VincentWright — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 08:47:46 -0000

#NeverForget T.H.O.S.E.: To Heal On September Eleventh...

Re: Video Of The Week: The Coming Disruption Of Transportation And Energy

VincentWright — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 19:55:07 -0000

This hour-long video is *10x* more valuable than any hour-long news show I've seen in 2017...

Re: The Hashtag

VincentWright — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 07:14:42 -0000

Thanks for sharing Chris Messina's big win with #Hashtag10 with us, Fred. (As with a lot of other people, I started using # 30+ years ago. For those 30+ years, I've been using it daily as #4 of a set of 5 immutable variables.)

Re: SoundCloud

VincentWright — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:14:14 -0000

Well, I heartily confess that I have a bit of a daily addiction to @SoundCloud so BIG-THANKS, Fred!

Re: Unrelenting Stress

VincentWright — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:17:20 -0000

OR the good Mr. Elon Musk could get a better handle on processing his *unrelenting stress* by taking a 3, 4, 7-day mini-vacation as an "unemployable", yet, workaholic minority and see if that juxtaposition wouldn't immediately make him jump for joy as high as possible as soon as he's re-granted the chance to get back into this very moment which apparently is overly-stressing him and his good soul.

(For a person with above-average resources, "unrelenting stress" is inexcusably stupid.

It's just cognitive stupidity residing within the same cranium as entrepreneurial genius.

It takes entrepreneurial genius to conceive of and deliver what Elon Musk has delivered.

It takes cognitive stupidity to *not* process the "unrelenting stress".

As with any other thing we can conceive of as an "object|target|thing", stress can be *PROCESSED*.

And wouldn't it be great to put intellectual genius to work in building reliable stress management SYSTEMS to help process stress which affects each and every one of us ... including entrepreneurial genius?)

#UnrelentingStressWithOptions ≠ #UnrelentingStressWithoutOptions #TradingPlaces #ProcessTheStress

Re: Bearing Witness

VincentWright — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 09:02:02 -0000

One of my Top 10 favorite AVC posts of 2017...

Re: Grammarly

VincentWright — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 13:57:18 -0000

Fred:
An unexpected personal benefit of your article's prompting me to restore the Grammarly extension to Chrome on this laptop is that, once installed, it concurrently showed up on another, non-networked laptop on my desk.

This indicates that, though I'm using the 2 machines for 2 separate gmail accounts, I've been using only one instance of Chrome for both machines...

OOPS!

(And, THANKS! :-) )

Re: What If The Narrative Is Wrong?

VincentWright — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:56:57 -0000

Care to point us to an example of proof?

Re: What If The Narrative Is Wrong?

VincentWright — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:51:26 -0000

What if the narrative is wrong about Google Trends?
By that question I'm asking, has Google Trends proven its accuracy? Or is just the name "Google" enough for us to stop worrying and to have justifiable certainty about its accuracy?

Re: Protecting The Right To Speak And Write And Blog

VincentWright — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:47:25 -0000

Tweeted...
(And this is PERFECT: "These public debates can get nasty and personal, and that is unfortunate, but I believe it is better that we allow for this debate than set legal precedent that wealthy people can stifle debate by suing publications out of business.")

Re: New Economics

VincentWright — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 16:55:00 -0000

Philip:
I have zero expertise in this general topic but, that aside, it's impossible to not consider your parenthetical question: "is it rational if you are totally wrong?"

I'd argue that, generally, one *can* be rational AND wrong.

You can make a rational decision based upon methodical reasoning about all observable facts ... and get a wrong (non-desirable) outcome.

It can be rationale and not generate a right outcome.

It's not solely the outcome which makes something rational.

(Conversely, many people have been befuddled by non-rational methods of getting a positive/desired outcome via winning an office pool during March Madness.)

Re: Why Malwarebytes detects PC Pitstop as Potentially Unwanted

VincentWright — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 00:13:36 -0000

Excellent, EXCELLENT work, Corey! A quick Google search turned up Joe Thibodeau's Linkedin profile at: https://www.linkedin.com/in...

From his Linkedin profile, he links directly to PC Matic's website: https://www.linkedin.com/re...

Malwarebytes is, thankfully, blocking connection to that site!

(Here's the thing that has me fuming even more: Their television commercials seemed "a bit off" to my instincts AND each time I wrote to PC Matic about issues with its products on my machines, performance got worse ... until the PCs were no longer usable.

Those machines started to behave in ways which I'd never seen on PCs since I started heavily using them in 1985 ... alas, they're gone but, at least I know not to buy a PC Matic license again...)

Re: Why Malwarebytes detects PC Pitstop as Potentially Unwanted

VincentWright — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 00:03:44 -0000

WOW!! I used PC Matic on 3 machines about 1 1/2 years ago. All 3 of those machines are sitting here, dead...

Re: Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas

VincentWright — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 20:53:42 -0000

Wishing you and yours the very BEST of the best for the holidays and FAR beyond, Fred!

Re: Videos For The Hour Of Code

VincentWright — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 07:58:45 -0000

Hi, Fred:
Just saw this video via Edutopia: https://www.youtube.com/wat... (It's the opening video at https://www.madewithcode.com/ )