I spent a lot of time this weekend at the Farmer's Open golf tournament at Torrey Pines. I go every single year. I love golf. It seems strange that I would. I do love sports: surfing, football hockey, etc., but golf? Honestly, I've asked myself several times why. It always goes back to my Dad. He literally bred a love of golf into me.

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to spend some time with Howard Lindzon, CEO of StockTwits, and investor-extraordinaire (Angel, fund, and market). Howard is a super-smart guy, and shared a ton of great insights with us.

Marx gets a bad rap, mostly from folks who've never really bothered to read his works. Marx did espouse some fairly insane ideas and several of his most passionate fans were truly authoritarian nutjobs, so part of the conventional reaction to Marx is certainly understandable. But he was undoubtedly one of the most important thinkers of the 19th Century and believe it or not, he was not wrong about everything. Some of his most fundamental insights are as true today as they were for 19th Century coal miners, and some very 'capitalist' ideas derive directly from Marxist ideas. If you work in the high-tech industry in particular, you have a lot to thank Marx for...

I love analogies -- I really do. I probably rely on them far too much to convey and even analyze concepts. Everyone knows the old adage that all analogies limp -- they are always imperfect representations. Often these imperfections are themselves revealing, but sometimes they are downright misleading.

Here's one you hear all the time in some form or another: 'Entrepreneurship is like a roller-coaster'. Superficially, sure I get the point.... emotional highs and lows; ups and downs; twists and turns. But the truth is that entrepreneurship is NOTHING like a roller-coaster. In terms of the emotional volatility that the analogy is meant to convey, the sometimes used comparison of entrepreneurship to a passionate romantic relationship is better.

I am always trying to take something of value away from any experience I have, even my entertainment.  So, I tend to enjoy most entertainment that contains something I can process, put to use somehow, and even benefit from. Here's a recent example from the insanely good TV show Breaking Bad.

I've been online since a 'blog' was simply a website and 'the cloud' was just the internet. But, I've never really blogged. I've launched or run or managed websites with tens of millions of users per month. But, I've never really blogged. So I'm going to try to start blogging.