I used to be highly skeptical that one could be reading more than one book at a time. But in the last couple of years what I have found works best for me is to have 3-4 non fiction books going simultaneously. I tend to pick books on quite different subjects so I that there is no confusion. Progress on each book is somewhat slower than reading just one but not by as much as I would have thought and my completion rate is way up. Here is why I think this works. When you have only one book and yo...

I used to be highly skeptical that one could be reading more than one book at a time. But in the last couple of years what I have found works best for me is to have 3-4 non fiction books going simultaneously. I tend to pick books on quite different subjects so I that there is no confusion. Progress on each book is somewhat slower than reading just one but not by as much as I would have thought and my completion rate is way up. Here is why I think this works. When you have only one book and yo...

A while back I announced on this blog that we were planning to move back to the city. I am happy to report that we have made a lot of progress on that and are now in contract to buy a place not far from the USV offices. When I mentioned this to a friend yesterday, he asked an interesting question: but how will you have time to think? My friend who lives in the city finds that the pace of life in New York makes it hard for him to take the time to think. There is always another event to go to, ...

A while back I announced on this blog that we were planning to move back to the city. I am happy to report that we have made a lot of progress on that and are now in contract to buy a place not far from the USV offices. When I mentioned this to a friend yesterday, he asked an interesting question: but how will you have time to think? My friend who lives in the city finds that the pace of life in New York makes it hard for him to take the time to think. There is always another event to go to, ...

As I am getting ready to go to SXSW and thus to a different timezone I thought I would share how I handle timezones and calendaring (this was in part prompted by a tweet from Andrew Parker the other day about this issue). My system is very simple: I put everything into the calendar at the exact time it will occur in whatever timezone I will be in that day. So if an event is in Austin at 2pm, I will put it into my calendar as 2pm. When I will get to Austin tomorrow, I will change my phone’s da...

As I am getting ready to go to SXSW and thus to a different timezone I thought I would share how I handle timezones and calendaring (this was in part prompted by a tweet from Andrew Parker the other day about this issue). My system is very simple: I put everything into the calendar at the exact time it will occur in whatever timezone I will be in that day. So if an event is in Austin at 2pm, I will put it into my calendar as 2pm. When I will get to Austin tomorrow, I will change my phone’s da...