What kills the creative force is not age or lack of talent, but our own spirit, our own attitude.

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself." — Hermann Hesse

If the happiness and prosperity of other people depend on you, you have nothing to fear anymore.

Lot of talk RE: how war in Israel/potential escalation could impact various #shipping segments (as usual, war generally positive for rates) at Capital Link in NYC on Tues. See story for shipping exec comments: #tankers #LNG #LPG #containers #drybulk $STNG tinyurl.com/5bsutbuw

Birkenstock IPO’d today at a ~$8B valuation. Its CEO Oliver Reichert did a massive turnaround in the past decade: sales 5x’d from $125m in 2012 to $1.3B in 2022. The wildest part: he has zero background in footwear or fashion. Prior to taking over the top job in 2013, he

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz: “At this moment, there is only one place for Germany — the place at Israel’s side. Our own history, our responsibility arising from the Holocaust, makes it a perpetual task for us to stand up for the security of the State of Israel.”

Do whatever it takes.

The more things change the more things stay the same.

Yet these are examples of the so-called "best and brightest" against whom people like me who did not attend an Ivy League college were never allowed to compete for jobs. As I often say; Wait, you majored in math at an Ivy League college and you can't do separable variables?

Be the biggest fan of the people you care about. Defend them. Keep the hope alive. Make them look good. Catch them when they fall. Be there when they need you. Root for them unconditionally.

May their memories be a blessing.

My partner, lisahellebo, and I, are proud to sign-on to this Venture Capital Community Statement of Support for Israel on behalf of REFASHIOND; We unequivocally condemn the wanton brutality and hatred that marked the attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7.

Huge thank you to Harry Stebbings 20VC Fund and Michael Eisenberg for the opportunity to shed more light on what is happening right now in Israel and what people locally and abroad are doing to help support. Please share on Spotify and YouTube open.spotify.com/episode/1Ub4pA…

Amazon is set to do with logistics services what it did with cloud computing—and it may be a $100 billion move fortune.com/2023/10/12/ama…

Climate rules are coming for corporate America npr.org/2023/10/12/120…

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#ObsessivelyEnthusiasticInvestor REFASHIOND. We look for the people we believe are doing the best work in Industrial Transformation. Then we go all-in on them. With obsessive enthusiasm. Join us. #IndustrialTransformation #Innovation #Technology #Startups #VentureCapital

Today, I got a fantastic welcome at my alma mater University of Szeged, Hungary 🎉🎊🎈🍾💫😍

Climate change, human activity causing global water cycles to become 'increasingly erratic': World Meteorological Organization - ABC News via ABC News - abcnews.go.com/US/climate-cha…

Reflection: 2023 has been a year of two realities: The best of times and the worst of times; A time of delirious delight and a time of desperate despair. 😂 Reflection: Nothing lasts forever. No condition is permanent. Reflection: If this year doesn’t break me. Nothing will.