The Power Of Humans: Low Wattage, High Creativity
2026-02-24
AI consumes huge amounts of energy, but still can’t beat humans on creativity. The Winter Olympics have just wrapped up,Keep Reading
Solar And AI Are Turning The World Upside Down
2026-02-12
With trillions at stake, no wonder they’re both so controversial. Everyone knows AI is changing everything, faster than we canKeep Reading
Solar And Storage Are Surging, And More Takeaways From RE+ In Vegas
2025-09-14
How’s the U.S. solar industry reacting to new policy headwinds? I went to Las Vegas last week to find out,Keep Reading
Podcast: Bootstrapping, Culture, And The Online Learning Opportunity
2025-08-15
This month I was invited onto the ‘HR Heretics’ podcast to discuss the early days of Quizlet, and the futureKeep Reading
Job Advice For Recent College Grads
2025-08-01
I get asked constantly for job and career advice by recent and soon-to-be college grads, in climate tech and inKeep Reading
The Perfect Clean Machine
2025-06-18
What does energy nirvana look like? To me, it’s cheap, clean power, straight from your roof instead of fossil fuelsKeep Reading
The Jargon Of Climate Capitalism, Decoded
2024-04-11
Working on climate and trying to understand all the business-speak? Here’s collection of fun, simple stories I wrote a coupleKeep Reading
75 Business Bedtime Stories For Kids
2024-03-28
People think business is complicated… but it really isn’t. A couple years ago, I decided to write some simple storiesKeep Reading
If You Only Try To Understand One Financial Graph, This Is The One
2020-03-06
We’ve all gotten used to tuning out financial market noise, because it’s just too damn complex. But something really dramaticKeep Reading
Five Questions Funders Will Ask About Your Journalism Venture
2019-04-17
Think these over before meeting with potential funders from the tech world. More and more journalist-entrepreneurs are looking to SiliconKeep Reading
Flashback To A Very Young Netflix, Climbing The Wall of Worry
2019-04-15
Check out the first five Netflix annual reports (2002-2007), which for some reason I saved and have now scanned: 2002Keep Reading
David Mayer On Fighting For Public Health, And His Condom Business
2019-02-26
How National Condom Week Turned Into A Lifelong Entrepreneurial Career In 2019 I interviewed my neighbor David Mayer, the founderKeep Reading
Notes From The Day Larry And Sergei Pitched Us
2019-02-05
This morning I found the notes from my memorable early-1999 meeting with Google’s Larry Page and Sergei Brin. I wasKeep Reading
Celebrating The Early Quizlet Team
2018-10-22
The early Quizlet team was awesome. We bootstrapped the company for almost a decade, with a small, scrappy, team thatKeep Reading
Cobalt Blue Sign From the Dawn of Global Banking
2017-04-02
I bought this sign at the Alameda antiques market after noticing it a few months in a row. I’m intoKeep Reading
Startup Advice And Values (Circa 2010)
2017-02-04
Startup cultures have changed a lot since I wrote this list for the Quizlet team in 2010. We had aKeep Reading
An Afternoon of Design Ideas
2016-12-08
Just went to a very cool afternoon of presentations at the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation on the Berkeley campus.Keep Reading
How Pilates Got Huge (It Went Open Source)
2016-10-20
If you want to start a trend that goes from obscure to ubiquitous seemingly overnight, open it up wide. CaseKeep Reading
CEO Weekend Project: How to Hang Swings in Your Office
2013-07-19
Let’s face it – you need a break from the firehose of decisions, meetings and stress that comes with beingKeep Reading