Sarah
The gigantic list of augmented reality use cases
Everyone says that augmented reality (AR) will be bigger than virtual reality (VR): analysts, investors, technologists, and futurists...
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Angel investor, founder, coach, and early-stage VC. Former startup person, even more former lawyer. Fan of sci-fi, free speech, weightlifting, gaming, and the Enneagram. Based in New England but working remotely.
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Sarah
- Aug 16, 2016
- 7 min
The high-end VR room of the future looks like this
(I wrote this originally for UploadVR.) Today’s VR systems are both fantastic and restrictive: they blow you away, but it’s clear how...
Sarah
- Apr 11, 2016
- 3 min
Bots as a service
If bots are the next big thing, then whatever makes bot-building easy and cross-platform will be huge. Bots, or conversational...
Sarah
- Sep 3, 2015
- 4 min
I tried Google Cardboard and it's awesome
Google Cardboard is exciting because it makes virtual reality accessible to anyone with a smartphone and a few extra bucks. Sure, the...
Sarah
- Aug 7, 2015
- 3 min
How to cold email pitch a VC
Sending a cold pitch over email is a bad way to get investors’ attention. Still, a lot of people do it, and there’s a way to make yours...
Sarah
- Mar 1, 2015
- 1 min
The story of my life
The quest for inbox zero is a noble but tireless one. We are all Sisyphus. #sisyphus #productivity #inboxzero
Sarah
- Jan 22, 2015
- 1 min
My personal heroes
Maybe it’s because I just turned thirty, but I’ve been thinking recently about the people who I’ve admired and learned from most over ...
Sarah
- Dec 8, 2014
- 5 min
An officiating script for my best friend's wedding
Last night I officiated my best friend's wedding ceremony, and I figured I'd post the script in case anyone else is doing a gay, secular...
Sarah
- Nov 16, 2014
- 13 min
7 reasons why "Dumb and Dumber To" was horrible, from a die-hard fan
This isn’t a movie review of “Dumb and Dumber To.” There are enough of those already. No, this is a personal lament from a die-hard fan...
Sarah
- Oct 29, 2014
- 1 min
The difference between "work out" and "workout"
Grammar PSA for the instagram fitness crowd. I see this every day. E.g.: Nice abs, but your grammar needs work. "Workout" is a noun. It's...
Sarah
- Oct 2, 2014
- 3 min
For two guys who hate advertising, Tim and Eric make great ads
You may have seen Jeff Goldblum in an eccentric General Electric light bulb ad that’s making the Internet rounds this week. Playing a...
Sarah
- Sep 15, 2014
- 10 min
The bathrooms on the Inca trail to Machu Picchu
If you're thinking of doing the 4-day Inca Trail hike to Machu Picchu and you're someone who appreciates modern plumbing, you're probably...
Sarah
- Jun 22, 2014
- 5 min
The polarizing brilliance of Tim and Eric
Originally published on Medium. People who have seen Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's work either love it or hate it. There isn't much...
Sarah
- Feb 19, 2014
- 3 min
RuPaul's Drag Race vocabulary guide
My friend Tyler is a doctor of clinical psychiatry who recently put his brainpower to work in an email thread introducing a friend to a...
Sarah
- Feb 19, 2014
- 3 min
How to find a journalist's email address in 8 steps
Most news sites don't make their writers' contact info easy to find. If it were, reporters would get even more slammed with pitches,...
Sarah
- Feb 10, 2014
- 3 min
Quotes about writing from Stephen King's "On Writing"
I read Stephen King's "On Writing" recently and loved it. It's full of great quotes about writing. I compiled all the ones that I...
Sarah
- Dec 20, 2013
- 5 min
Punctate Inner Choroidopathy, the fun retinal disease that's killing my vision
I'm 28, and I've been going blind since my freshman year of college. I don't talk about it often, and I hesitated for a long time before...
Sarah
- Dec 9, 2013
- 5 min
My rant in the 2002 Conard High School paper about the tardy policy
I was organizing some files on an old hard drive tonight when I found an article I wrote for my high school's paper about the...
Sarah
- Nov 7, 2013
- 1 min
Heinlein on being a talented generalist
I recently met Ed McNierney, and in talking about being good at a variety of things, he brought up the quote below. I thought it was a...
Sarah
- Oct 23, 2013
- 4 min
The 7 deadly sins of bad press releases
People spend thousands of dollars a year on press releases with little to show for it...because they're bad. Press releases often happen...
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If you're building something that feels like it's out of a scifi novel, I will probably love it. Tough, tech-heavy ideas are my thing. E.g., robotics, AR/VR, gaming, and the future of consumer health.
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