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Supporting workers in the gig economy | The Slow Hunch

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Hi, I'm Nick Grossman. Welcome to my internet brain. I work at Union Square Ventures. And live outside of Boston with my lovely wife. Supporting workers in the gig economy. July 28, 2015. If there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout my years as a human, it’s that life is hard. And people need help. In order to make things work. That help can come in many forms: family, friends, co-workers, teachers, unions. Healthcare providers, agents. Therapists, strangers on the internet. Seeking W2 status for on-dema...

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Pain x Resistance = Suffering (the case for throughput) | The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman

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Hi, I'm Nick Grossman. Welcome to my internet brain. I work at Union Square Ventures. And live outside of Boston with my lovely wife. Pain x Resistance = Suffering (the case for throughput). July 24, 2015. For the past nine months or so, I’ve been seeing a therapist specializing in mindfulness. Perhaps the best decision I’ve ever made. One of the things we spend a lot of time talking about is resistance. Pain x Resistance = Suffering. The mindfulness approach to resistance is to instead turn and face wha...

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Anti-workflow: to-dos | The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman

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Hi, I'm Nick Grossman. Welcome to my internet brain. I work at Union Square Ventures. And live outside of Boston with my lovely wife. April 29, 2015. A while back, I wrote about Anti-Workflow Apps. So I’ve been on the lookout for Anti-Workflow tools. Solutions that solve a problem that you think requires a new workflow, but may actually be more effectively solved another, more clever way Today I want to talk about to-dos, because I seem to have found my own personal anti-workflow solution. On the obvious...

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Venture capital vs. community capital | The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman

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Hi, I'm Nick Grossman. Welcome to my internet brain. I work at Union Square Ventures. And live outside of Boston with my lovely wife. Venture capital vs. community capital. May 22, 2015. Photo: Rudy (Loïs) Pignot. I am in Paris this week for OuiShareFest. And spoke yesterday morning during the opening session. OuiShareFest is in its third year as a large international gathering of folks interested in the peer/collaborative/sharing/networked society, put on by the community organization OuiShare. For my t...

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Introducing Quackpad – simple collaborative docs for teams using Slack | The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman

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Hi, I'm Nick Grossman. Welcome to my internet brain. I work at Union Square Ventures. And live outside of Boston with my lovely wife. Introducing Quackpad – simple collaborative docs for teams using Slack. July 30, 2015. Every month at USV we have an internal hack day, where we work on various fun tech projects. We hack on USV.com. We build internal tools, we play with fun new hardware. One area we’ve spent some time on recently is building tools for the USV Network. And sign in using your Slack account&...

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Web platforms as regulatory systems | The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman

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Hi, I'm Nick Grossman. Welcome to my internet brain. I work at Union Square Ventures. And live outside of Boston with my lovely wife. Web platforms as regulatory systems. December 16, 2014. This is part 3 in a series of posts. I’m developing into a white paper on “Regulation 2.0” for the Program on Municipal Innovation. Harvard Kennedy School of Government. For many tech industry readers of this blog, these ideas may seem obvious, but they are not intended for you! Suggesting that web platforms are in ma...

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The more things change… | The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman

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Hi, I'm Nick Grossman. Welcome to my internet brain. I work at Union Square Ventures. And live outside of Boston with my lovely wife. The more things change…. June 13, 2015. Here’s a slide from 2009, when we were convincing transit agencies to open up their data. And then later building MTA BusTIme. And here’s one from yesterday, from a talk I gave at the Shift Conference. Blog post to follow w more on that):. Get new posts by email:. Get new posts by email. The Blockchain as verified public timestamps.

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Financial Planning for the 90% | The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman

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Hi, I'm Nick Grossman. Welcome to my internet brain. I work at Union Square Ventures. And live outside of Boston with my lovely wife. Financial Planning for the 90%. March 30, 2015. A few weeks ago as I was walking down Beacon Street in Brookline, I happened upon something amazing: The Society of Grownups. Of course, there is no shortage of financial services for people who are well off — and I’d argue that the prevailing mindset is that you need to. The Society of Grownups is one attempt — at the ...

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Where do web standards come from? | The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman

http://www.nickgrossman.is/2015/05/26/where-do-web-standards-come-from

Hi, I'm Nick Grossman. Welcome to my internet brain. I work at Union Square Ventures. And live outside of Boston with my lovely wife. Where do web standards come from? May 26, 2015. I’ve spent the better part of the last six years thinking about where web standards come from. Before joining USV, I was at the (now retired) urban tech incubator OpenPlans. Where, among other things, we worked to further “open” technology solutions, including open data formats and web protocols. It feels like we are in the m...