November 18, 2009
Living Life While Working Hard
I had a 19 hour day yesterday – it started when I woke up at my hotel at 26th Street at 5am and ended when I hit the sack at ...
June 23, 2009
Deep Calm
I’m sitting in the early dawn light in a cabin in Tabernash, Colorado drinking a cup of coffee and getting ready to go for a run in the mountains.
I’ve ...
June 12, 2009
Work-Life Balance Interview
On Wednesday I did my final One-on-One with Phil Weiser on the topic of Work-Life Balance.
Rocky Radar did a great job of summarizing it in the post Feld on Life ...
June 9, 2009
Hi – I’m Back on the Grid
Wow – that was a great and much needed week off the grid. Both Amy and I were exhausted. But, we are back (although she is about to decamp to ...
May 30, 2009
Feld-Weiser One-on-One: Feld on Work-Life Balance
On Wednesday, June 10th, 6:00-7:00pm in the Wittemyer Courtroom, Wolf Law Building at CU Boulder I’m doing an interview with Phil Weiser titled Feld on Work-Life Balance. I’ve written extensively ...
May 3, 2009
The Variable in Work Life Balance
If you watch Lost and are current, you know that the “Variable” is extremely important. As Daniel Faraday says, “we spend way too much time trying to figure out the ...
April 8, 2009
Tennis Mini-break
I love tennis. I don’t play nearly as much as I’d like to. About half of my Qx vacations with Amy include tennis; the first day is usually frustrating as ...
March 31, 2009
The Restorative Effects of Nature
Several months ago my friend Ben Casnocha sent me an article from Boston.com titled How the city hurts your brain… And what you can do about it. The article starts ...
March 26, 2009
The Rhythms of My Life
I was in a board meeting yesterday with a company planning a major commercial release of their product “at the end of summer”. We managed to turn this into 8/31/09 ...
October 25, 2008
It’s The Ride That Counts
I spent the past 10 days on the road in a bunch of different cities (New York, Bar Harbor, Boston, Westford, New York again, Tysons Corner, Alexandria, Owings Mills) doing ...
August 15, 2008
The Priorities of a Venture Capitalist
I’m baffled whenever I hear from a CEO that he’s having trouble getting a response from one of his VC investors. Unfortunately, this is a very common occurrence in VC-backed ...
August 3, 2008
Amazing Powers of Concentration
Tim O’Reilly tweeted a link to an article titled How To Concentrate which was originally published in 1930. It is excellent and worth reading slowly (presumably while you are concentrating.)
Amy ...
July 29, 2008
Why I Spend A Month A Year in Homer, Alaska
I wish it were as simple as "the weather." After 27 days in a row of rain (ok – we had sun for part of two days), the sun finally ...
June 17, 2008
Office Hours
When I was at MIT, I loved the idea of office hours. I didn’t use them often, but when I did they were incredibly helpful to me. When I had ...
June 12, 2008
Amy’s Italian Vacation
I will never be as good a writer as Amy. It’s always fun for me to read her view of a shared experience we have had. She’s got a lovely ...