I haven’t posted in years, so I thought I’d add some new content. I recorded this in my basement studio during the early months of COVID lockdown in 2020. ryanmcintyre…
July 27, 2022
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July 27, 2022
Music: Guitar Solo Series #1
I’d always been a ProTools user for my recording projects, but when I set up my new home studio a couple of years ago, I decided to switch to Apple’s…
July 29, 2008
Cow Magnets: Who Knew?
In the “you learn something new every day” category, I was at the hardware store (McGuckin’s, of course) and came across cow magnets . At first I thought this product…
September 11, 2008
Tom Friedman on Charlie Rose
I just downloaded Friedman’s new book onto my Kindle, “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America” (Thomas L. Friedman). He also recently…
September 12, 2008
Defragging One Mile High
…themes we call Implicit Web and Glue, two areas where we are actively looking for new investment opportunities. Defrag is all about meeting and brainstorming with people who are working…
November 14, 2008
Blast from the Past: First iPod Introduction
…the most recent introduction of the new iPod product line, they only mention the competition in order to mock it (and let’s face it, competition doesn’t really exist, with all…
November 21, 2008
The Valedictocracy
…country. The world is a complicated place, and I want my leaders to be as intelligent as possible, be comfortable with nuance and speak in complete sentences. The last eight…
January 15, 2009
FAS 157 Blows
File the newly enacted FAS 157 under “stupid accounting tricks”. In addition to making investments and representing Foundry Group on the boards of companies we’ve invested in, my partner Jason…
January 30, 2009
Meme du Jour: 25 Random Things About Me
While normally I avoid participating in chain-letter type things, for some reason this one caught my imagination when it showed up in my Facebook news feed this morning. It is…
March 31, 2009
I Need One of These
I’ve written in the past about our Human Computer Interaction (HCI) investment theme at Foundry Group and have mentioned our portfolio companies that fit into that theme: EmSense, Oblong and…