Earlier this year, I came across a Tumblr post that I keep thinking about.

It’s the story of a man who is writing an article on people achieving high scores in classic video games. He finds out that the record for tetris is 327 lines. This man’s wife, regularly clears 500 - 600 lines on long car rides easily.

So, they go to a tournament, and she sets the record at 841. That wasn’t even her best score. She’s just a baller like that.

Here is my position on balance.

Balance is a worthy goal, but I don’t think we have a correct calibration of the scale on which it is measured.

I love working with Founders. There is a special kind of compatibility I can achieve with someone who is over-indexed on Innovational and Relational thinking because they balance out my Procedural and Analytical affinity.

However, as I evolve my portfolio of startups I work with, I am becoming more keyed into the type of person I want to work with. Here are my 3 Green Flags and 2 Red Flags that I look out for when chatting with a potential collaborator.

For my second Independence Day as a US Citizen, I thought it would be appropriate to share how Seth and I are using the NFTF scale to vote in the Maryland primaries.

Against their better judgement, Jess convinces the gang to visit the fair.