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Building with “AI” for the last three years feels like the Miller’s Planet scene in Interstellar.

Artificial intelligence has humbled us.

I love automation because it creates capacity to do higher value things, and helps create optionality.

Opendoor is a real-estate company that I have grown to admire because they are challenging the status quo of home buying and selling.

What are “Medical Tests”?

What’s Fast?

One thing that I really admired about NYC was the street cleaning that happened on both a daily and weekly basis all over the city.

The Real Estate landscape is interesting, particularly the category of companies that promise you the 'most qualified agent for your sale or search' using publicly available agent performance data.

Omni (BeOmni.com) delivers a magical experience in executing their value proposition.

Learning Stages and Channels: Stage 0: Unknown-Unknowns <— Explore Twitter Stage 1: Known-Unknown <— Explore Google Stage 2: Familiarity with topic <— Explore and Exploit Google & other content Pipes Stage 3: Comfortable with topic <— Practice via actual…

Facebook and Google are the most formidable threats to the entire ad industry.

Tod Sacertodi sold Brightroll to Yahoo for $640M with 8 years of hard work.

Can Alexa replace Google?

It's gonna happen - and there's only one thing you can do about it -- learn to hack.

“The line between disorder and order lies in logistics… ” — Sun Tzu Uber is building an army of people (with a car for now) ready to MOVE (anything) at moments notice.

Is there is a correlation between the increase in Selfies versus the growing trend of teens leaving Facebook?

I previously wrote about the design flaw in Facebook Star Ratings, which was addressed by Facebook sometime in January 2014.

Mashable published an interview with the Friendster Founder Jonathan Abrams.

A list..not in order of priority: 1) Have mentors in family, friends & business circles who you can call anytime, any day 2) Nurture relationships systematically 3) It's never too late to learn, un-learn or re-learn something 4) Live in the present (Power…

I was in the process of installing an app that replaces my home screen on Android.