## Aug 21, 2020

Let’s say you are going camping and want to bring a chess set. This cool chess set and board would be ideal. Chess is a great game and this is a great way to play it. I backed it when [...]

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## Aug 20, 2020

It’s my 59th birthday today. 59 is a nice number. It’s a prime number. I kicked off the day by getting a cup of coffee and sitting on the beach and reflecting on things. I am taking the day off [...]

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## Aug 19, 2020

We use Sunpower solar panels and inverters and they have this cool dashboard that shows us a number of interesting things. This is the percentage of power we are drawing from our solar panels vs the grid since May 1st: [...]

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## Aug 18, 2020

There is a lot of negativity around NYC right now. Bloggers writing sensational headlines. That sort of thing. It makes me want to go out and buy a ton of NYC stock right now. It is certainly the case that [...]

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## Aug 17, 2020

I woke up to a dream this morning where I was playing a game that was very similar to Turntable.fm, a failed effort to create a social music experience that had a moment back in 2011 and that I [...]

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## Aug 14, 2020

As is my weekly routine, I went onto Kickstarter and backed a bunch of projects this morning. One of them was Ghost Pacer, a holographic running partner. Ghost Pacer was created by AbdurRahman Bhatti, an “All-state cross country [...]

[Read more](https://avc.com/2020/08/funding-friday-ghost-pacer/)

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## Aug 13, 2020

Our portfolio company Quizlet put out a “State of Remote Learning Report” this week based on what they are seeing across their global learning platform during the pandemic. Quizlet wrote a blog post about it as well. There are [...]

[Read more](https://avc.com/2020/08/quizlets-state-of-remote-learning-report-2020/)

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## Aug 12, 2020

I just finished completing a thirty page form for an investment my wife and I are making in a limited partnership. This form is called a subscription agreement. I wrote about the frustration of having to complete this identical form [...]

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## Aug 11, 2020

I’ve written a bit about our portfolio company Nurx since we made the investment back in 2016. Nurx is a great example of how technology is helping to reshape how healthcare is delivered. With the Nurx mobile app, women (and [...]

[Read more](https://avc.com/2020/08/nurx-reimagining-healthcare/)