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I Built a 22,000 Contact Network on LinkedIn. Here’s Why You Don’t Need To. Part 1
TL;DR I grew my LinkedIn network to 22K contacts. You *might* grow yours to advance your career. “You want to have as large a LinkedIn network as possible,” he said. At the time, I didn’t understand. What was this investor was telling me? I’d been on the professional social network for a few years. I’d […]
The Sprawl Trilogy [3×5.4]
Netflix just started airing Altered Carbon. It’s a rad take Richard K. Morgan’s 2002 cyberpunk novel. One of my favorite genres, cyberpunk typically explores how the street repurposes tech, life in cyberspace and off-planet. Last fall, I reread William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy – Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. (Neuromancer, BTW, is credited with […]
The Story Grid. Pedro Paramo. [3×5.3]
I’m a story nerd. I enjoy re-reading books, re-watching movies. I like figuring out how the authors or film makers put the story together. What hints did they place at the beginning of the story, and resolve at the end? I’ve read plenty of books on writing screenplays, plotting, and character development. Last year, I […]
Insight Time. Startup Manual. Impossible Questions. [3×5.2]
Here’s this week’s 3×5. I like to work in 90 minute blocks of time, often split in sprints of 2×45. To help focus, I’ll use a timer app: Forest on my phone, Freedom, on my computer, and Insight for meditation. Of these, I find Forest the most useful and fun. You’re growing a (virtual) tree while […]
Product Market Fit
To paraphrase, Lean Startup author Eric Reis, “We can build any product. The question is: Will anyone buy it?” True Story: She is developing a new chip set. It’s revolutionary in its design and potential applications. When I ask about customers, she answers, “We’re building a platform, like the app store.” When I ask about […]
Why You Need a Bio Strategy
Here’s a spoken word version of the keynote I gave at Biofabricate 2017. To learn more about why you need a bio strategy, click here.
Three by Five.1
I’m starting a new weekly feature. Not to clutter your life – you can opt out if you’d like – but to document and share the things that influence me during a week. To keep myself focused and brief, I promise to only share what fits on one side of a 3×5 filecard. Why? The […]
What I’m Reading
Happy New Year! Over the holidays, I unsubscribed from dozens of newsletters. I was very critical in thinking through whether a newsletter belonged in my email box. Was it helping me stay informed? Was it inspiring? Or, was it wasting (virtual) space? Here are a few of the newsletters I subscribe to stay up to date on biotech, […]
2017: A Year Wraps and Good Riddance
Good Riddance 2017 It was a good year, but not without its challenges. The TL;DR is: mL grew more than 10 percent but is still down from its 2015 high. I co-authored and published What’s Your Bio Strategy? I moderated a panel at SynBioBeta SF17 and keynoted at Biofabricate 4 and enjoyed it. I now […]