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A recent quote of mine in AdAge in a graphic about the state of adtech funding, “The winners have been picked,” said Mr.

My best friend, Jeremy Yuricek, passed away suddenly last week at the age of 35.

I’d taken the same walk four times now, through the clearing to the unmarked path through the forest, over the bridge to the pathway, down the tunnel of the trees to the reflecting river, over the road to the town.

Knowing where you stand can help you figure out what to change. * * * Over the last 2.5 years, I’ve worked on a number of initiatives and tested some ideas to create a better operating system for myself and for kbs+ Ventures, with the goal towards improvi…

In January 2012, I wrote a post about how crowdfunding could impact the venture capital industry.

First posted to Medium.

“Why do people leave?”

In the 1930s and 1940s the American psychologist B.F.

Leaving the peaceful, quiet, sun-soaked coast of Liguria and driving across the country to our last stop, tourist-packed Venice, was a tough shift.

Everyone wants to drive through Tuscany.

A couple years ago while traveling in India, a friend of mine that taught photography workshops in Delhi was reviewing my work and providing some feedback and suggestions.

New York City is a bit of a vortex that can be hard to escape.

Steve Cheney, in a good read about how to hack startup growth through building strategies with brands: Avoid working with digital agencies. … The reason it doesn’t work generally in agency-land is deals don’t fly for anything nonstandard, which is difficu…

I’ve only been to Tanglewood to see the Boston Symphony Orchestra once, but here’s what I’ve learned about doing it right.

More on Flickr.

I’ve carried a hammock in my car for years, and while for some reason it never seems to get used enough, I always carry it with me.

Only a couple hours from New York City, the Hudson River Valley is full of adventures big and small.

The beginning, the middle, the end.

It’s easy to forget that Manhattan is an island.

The conversations between venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and advisors covered the usual topics du jour: crowdfunding, the role of angels and traditional venture capitalists, the macro shift into funding software (“bits, not atoms”) that is disrupting…

From 2010 to 2011, Sloane, Carl and I ran a weekly newsletter about New Orleans called NOLAlicious.

Seasonal places have two distinct states, tourist and non-tourist, and visiting them out of season can feel like visiting the ruins of a once-great land.

On a spring Saturday a year ago I sat down for a photography portfolio review at International Center of Photography with Per.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

I’ve noticed an interesting difference in the way people use the word “editing” when they talk about photography.

One of my favorite things about going to SXSW is spending the afternoon before the event kicks off just exploring the city.

I have a ritual I indulge whenever I travel to somewhere on the water, be it ocean, river, pond or stream: I put my toe in the water, as a small way to say that I was there.

Sloane and I have a running conversation about whether I would be a good museum guard.

Walking through a cemetary near a mosque in Berlin, we stopped to look at the tombstones of these two men.

When the smartest man in the world walks into your office with a bad idea, you should probably fund it. - Brad Horowitz talking about Peter Thiel and PayPal at #dld13 DLD13 DLD, a global conference about digital innovation, science and culture, brought to…

Continuing a meme, below are my cities in 2012.

As we walked over Pont des Arts on our way from the Louvre, as many of Paris’s 27 mm tourists do each year, we stopped to survey the infamous “love locks”, the padlock vendors, and our fellow tourists taking pictures and locking thier own to the bridge.

For a couple years, I’ve been actively reducing noise pollution (beeps, alarms, and sound notifications), light pollution, vibration pollution, and notification pollution.

And so, here’s my wish: if there’s a community you’ve admired for a long time, and you’ve been standing on the outside looking in, and you feel like you’re hopelessly late, I hope you’ll consider striking up a conversation sometime this week.

On Native and Programmatic | John Battelle’s Search Blog If I had to wager a guess, I’d have to say that programmatic will be a larger force, but only if you take “native” to mean the native units at domain-specific platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr

Hardware, the Ugly Stepchild of Venture Capital, Is Having a Glamour Moment | Wired Steve Schlafman a principal at Lerer Ventures agrees, saying that seed-level investors are warming up to the idea of hardware, “And that will create a wave of new startups…

Back in August, Sloane and I escaped for our minimoon to Black Mountain Ranch, a working dude and cattle ranch in McCoy, Colorado, a perfect blend of what we were looking for: close enough to get there, far enough to get away.

Tell stories.

Assuming you knew everything about someone, what ad would you create and serve for them?

Kakao Talk also has a monetization scheme that eschews the boring and intrusive in-stream display advertising on which Facebook’s mobile experience has so far been based.

Over Thanksgiving 2012, Sloane Davidson (@sloane) and I went to Guatemala to support She’s the First by visiting and volunteering at Starfish One by One, an education and mentorship program that supports girls education in 4 cities in the Lake Atitlian re…

Step after step after step, straight up Volcan San Pedro.

Manhattan in recovery, Tuesday and Wednesday post-#sandy, Oct 30 and 31.

With Lower Manhattan still out of power, the rest of Manhattan is dealing with the overflow.

Surveying Lower Manhattan post-Hurricane Sandy, Chelsea, West Village, Tribeca, Financial District, South Street Seaport, Wall Street.

Morning after Hurricane Sandy, NYC, East Village, Ave C.

Building face gone, 14th and 8th.