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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
Oct 28, 201613 min read
How Niantic should roll out Gen II in Pokémon Go
Originally published on UploadVR.com. There’s a lot of speculation right now around how Niantic will introduce the next generation of...
Sarah
Oct 25, 201613 min read
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...
Sarah
Aug 16, 20167 min read
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, 20163 min read
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, 20154 min read
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, 20153 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20151 min read
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, 20145 min read
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, 201413 min read
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, 20141 min read
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, 20143 min read
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, 201410 min read
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, 20145 min read
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, 20143 min read
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, 20143 min read
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, 20143 min read
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, 20135 min read
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, 20135 min read
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, 20131 min read
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...
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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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