Lots of hard-working soon-to-be college grads won’t get to have a ceremony this year.

So it seems like a good time to revisit one of the best commencement speeches of my lifetime.

This Is Water David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si… via YouTube

GO TIME FOR PATTERN BREAKERS PODCAST

I had the chance to interview Michael Seibel Michael Seibel for the first interview of our new season of the Pattern Breakers podcast last week. Michael has been a powerful force in the startup ecosystem both as a founder (Justin.tv,…

I was delighted to see my Alma mater MIT eliminate required diversity statements. Of course achieving a diverse faculty, including on ideology, is important but requiring statements of fealty from faculty job candidates is an affront to almost every academic freedom value.…

Question: what can the citizens of California do to fix this blatant corruption and incompetence?

Is this actually real?

The price you pay for doing what everyone else does is getting what everyone else gets.

Everyone wants small government until there’s something they want to ban.

So good.

Two people whom I admire, Mike Maples, Jr and Peter Ziebelman, have teamed up to write an inspirational book for the new generation of startup founders and investors, Pattern Breakers. And it is a great companion to my book The Venture Mindset, as the photograph amply shows!

Mike is a…

A year ago, I thought Ron DeSantis was impressive enough that I hoped for a Presidential race between him and Gavin Newsom to decide America's will. (Oh well.)

Lately, De Santis has veered into needlessly contentious and distracting culture wars. His banning of lab meat recalls…

“If you’re going to do anything new or innovative, you have to be willing to be misunderstood.”

~ Jeff Bezos

You’re invited to leave your screens behind in the world of icons 👏🏼 Well done @airbnb Brian Chesky

This is everything Jonathan Haidt talks about in “The Righteous Mind,” “The Coddling of the American Mind,” and “The Anxious Generation” in one video. WOW!!

Word salad.

This type of pablum from so-called leaders has contributed to the events leading up to this debacle. Leadership requires a whole lot more than anodyne non-statements like this.

I would modify slightly:

If you went to an Ivy or elite school and majored in something bogus, that will turn your degree from a positive to a strong negative.

Raw Intelligence coupled with bad judgment and immaturity are a toxic mix.

I can’t believe I have to explain what’s happening here, but here goes. Elite students of Ivy League schools have glamorized oppression so much that they have now reached role play status to satisfy their fantasies. Here, the students have appropriated the suffering of Gazans and…

Sometimes a single image or piece of footage captures the zeitgeist at multiple levels. This one should be a permanent reminder of the multiple layers of insanity of the far left as well as the lack of seriousness of those running our elite Universities.

It’s important we not…

Enough said :)

I’m sad for my European friends that they have to live with the consequences of the EU government.