Brilliant. Mom knows best. buff.ly/3aYjYDY

Breaking a craving: The internet has a term for it: blackpilled. The black pill must be completely impenetrable to work. If your brain can imagine even for a second that your craving is satisfied the cycle of suffering will continue. buff.ly/3fdMZ1C

Family office investments in debt have become even more prolific since this article went live in December. "Axial Networks Inc, operates an online forum to bring together lenders and borrowers, estimates that family offices see a 15% annual increase." buff.ly/2KWRcJh

WFH is not going anywhere (yay!) - Nationwide is planning to exit non-core offices by Nov 1, 2020 - Morgan Stanley, . 90% of its 80K employees are working from home currently. - SocGen's estimates 20% of its workforce will continue to work from home after the crisis

Earnings guidance are no guidance at all. "283 companies in the S&P 500 reported by Friday last week. Within that group, 53 of the 103 companies that provided earnings guidance earlier this year have scrapped it according to Credit Suisse data." buff.ly/3foMLox

“Too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the moment.” buff.ly/2K4vyjF

Users are changed in the process of interacting with these objects and spaces. Rolston believes that our digital selves will evolve into entities of their own — what he calls our “meta me,” a combination of both the real and the digital you.

So many AI startups... so few data management ventures. Where is the peanut butter to the AI-jelly? Is AWS taking care of all the pains, is the expected IRR not as rich or is there a gap in the market?

52% of SME businesses surveyed by SHRM expect to be out of business within six months. What does this number look like in the startup universe? buff.ly/2zgLMq2

If restaurants and drivers complained about DoorDash but DoorDash was raking in juicy profits, you could be like “what do you want, innovate or die, the market has spoken.” But restaurants complain about DoorDash, and it lost $450 million in 2019 on about $1 billion of revenue.

Usually when you do a good thing that works out and brings in money, you try to do more things. Banks are like “sorry there is a fixed number of things we can do, we did a good thing today so now we’re done with things.” buff.ly/3bPWaCn

Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever… buff.ly/3bXEncL

What do banks have too much of? Well, they have a lot of not going to work. “Not going to work” is not a conventional financial asset, but it clearly has a value; you can do something with it. Maybe you could pay people in the form of not going to work?

Jerry Sienfeld: " When you love something, it's a bottomless pool of energy. Will is like not eating dessert. That's just forcing yourself. You can't force yourself to be what you have made yourself into. You can love it. Love is endless. Will is finite."

Big VC funds fail to deliver big returns. Not a single fund that exceeded a $500M capital raise earned more than twice the invested capital after fees.  buff.ly/2AJvFC0

Sometimes success is 3% brains and 97% not getting distracted by the internet.

When something goes wrong, we often strive to be better prepared if the same thing happens again. But the same disasters tend not to happen twice in a row. A more effective approach is simply to prepare to be surprised by life, instead of expecting the past to repeat itself.

Has any VC or angel investor ever invested in a startup he received via cold email or Twitter DM ? Yes, I have. Two in the last two months

Was chatting with Helen Guo yesterday about acquiring SMBs and wanted to share that SBA isn't the sole route for financing. Regional banks will often finance these deals with great terms. I've personally used @HeritageBankNW @ColumbiaBankNW here in the PNW. #SMBTWITTER

About QofE reports... if the team preparing the report doesn't take non-accountant prepared data into account (ex Shopify or POS transaction reports, bank statements) you are very likely stepping into an alternative reality that the #SMB seller created. Get real numbers #ETA