Did you know you can download notes and highlights from your Kindle reader? Apparently, that’s been a thing for awhile and I’m just learning it now after reading a tweetstorm about reading (a quick must read, btw).

I wish I would have known this a few years ago when I started typing out all my notes, highlights, and thoughts by hand. I’ll read a physical book over an e-book any day, but the ability to copy and paste notes might be enough to change my process. I just wish Amazon broke the highlights down by chapters. Anyways, here’s a good guide on how to do it. Continue Reading…

The hardest part of vacations is getting caught up on everything after you get back. Email is the worst. Reading is a close second only because there is so much more to wade through in a limited amount of time.

I’m almost caught up. Two things I did read are worth highlighting, so I pulled a few quotes from each. Links to both are below. Continue Reading…

There was great discussion at a Techonomy conference around cyber security, personal data, privacy, and transparency around all the “free” services we use. Is it a fair value exchange of free service for our data, how tech companies use the information, who owns the information, and potential regulation and oversight of it all where some of the topics covered. There’s no definitive conclusion other then it’s complicated – self-regulation is unlikely to work – but it’s a good discussion for users and investors alike.

The conference streamed live about a week ago and all the videos were published this week. The video embedded below is the discussion mentioned above with Bill Gurley, Mark Rotenberg, and Hemant Taneja. Continue Reading…