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Bridges in a Smaller World
What a Danish sovereign fund reminded me about trust, capital, and strategy.
Feb 19
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Earnest Sweat
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Touch Grass, Build Trust
Why the next edge in private markets will be human
Feb 11
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The VC Special Doesn’t Start on the Main Stage
Working the Room Before the Big Raise
Feb 7
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January 2026
Let the Great Ones Leave
What the one-and-done era of college basketball teaches us about talent.
Jan 29
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Nostalgia Is Not a Strategy
Why adaptation beats past performance when the old stories stop working
Jan 26
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Who Puts You in Business
Why the next generation of venture firms will be incubated, not raised
Jan 20
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The Streaming Wars of Venture Capital
Why narrative became table stakes and how purposeful storytelling becomes a moat OR When venture capital stopped distributing deals and started…
Jan 14
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Earnest Sweat
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Keeping Early January Energy
Why early January energy is really about perspective, not motivation
Jan 8
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The Question Behind the Question
Why the right questions are the unit of strategy
Jan 5
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New Year, Same Compounding
The three books that carried me through 2025, and the shelf you helped build
Jan 1
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December 2025
Album of the Year: Cathedral Building
A 2025 Retrospective in 12 Tracks
Dec 29, 2025
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Acceleration Isn’t Collapse
We Might Not Be in a Bubble. We Might Be in the Future.
Dec 22, 2025
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