I have all of those numbers (on my BlackBerry but before that on my many Palms) in a contact under my name. Not sure what the advantage of having an app for them is (unless it encrypts, too).

That looks like the guy I met in September 1983.

Sounds like the VC version of the movie Pay it Forward. My father, who was politcally active in my home town, always said that anytime someone called you to ask for a favor, you should answer, "Yes," if there's any way that you can.

101010=42, very insightful.

Maybe you should become a Talmudic numerogist.

Three cheers for your use of "incent" vs. "incentivize."

I wonder whether the difference between speculation and investing is a bit like the difference between pornography and art according to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black: I don't know how to define it, but I can tell the difference when I see it.

Thanks Brad. I'm touched.

I read Congressman Polis's article. First openly gay, congresman elected! Good for him.

One commenter to his essay gave him grief about the frivolity of some of the goings-on. I'd commend him for giving us the "straight shit" about what it's like there from his not-yet-jaded eyes (I believe that he'll be unable to maintain his current perspective).

Thanks for sharing, Brad.

LOL, Amy. It seems to me that the Republicans are guilty of "spend and spend" as opposed to "tax and spend." Eventually, my kids, grandkids and great-grandkids are going to have to pay for the war in Iraq.

On the other hand, this approach would suggest that every point is as important as every other point. This just isn't true. Maybe Nadal's strategy (beat the shit out of the other guy until there's nothing left of him, which is supported by Nadal's sprinting from the coin toss to the warm up, when others take a more leisurely pace) requires him to behave this way, but I could imagine other approaches.

Nor in business is every battle of equal value to every other battle. Sometimes, you have to allocate scarce resources to more battles than you can fund.

It dawned on me this mornng that Matthew Sobol seems a lot like Harry Seldon.