What’s In A Name?
I decided after much deliberation (about 30 seconds) to name this blog after my favorite class in college – Thinking About Thinking. Those of you who know me know that I am hardly the scholarly/intellectual type that such a name would suggest. If I were to name the blog after my college experience, it would probably be named “Trying to find money to buy something called domain names” or “Too tired to wake up for 11:00am classes”. Nonetheless, I do have fond memories of this class – and what it represents is what I hope will shape the direction of this blog.
First of all, as the name suggests, Thinking About Thinking was about all sorts of topics that deserved thought. It was about everything from religion to philosophy, science to ethics, law to politics, and much more. Every week was a new meaty topic. In thinking about writing a blog, I hesitated because I wasn’t that motivated to write a blog just about my life as a venture capitalist and things that I see in the technology world. There are many wonderful bloggers that cover that pretty well. While I do think I have some thoughts and experiences worthy to add to that discussion, I enjoy engaging on all sorts of other topics as well. So, consider this blog to be about a myriad of topics – one serving VC, one serving technology, and 3 servings of other stuff of varying degrees of randomness and interest.
Another aspect of the course that I remember fondly was its format. It was a course taught by three professors from three distinctly different disciplines: Alan Dershowitz (infamously one of O.J.’s lawyers), the late Stephen Gould (the preeminent evolutionary biologist of his time), and Robert Nozick (a renowned philosopher). Each week, each of them would dissect the given topic from their areas of discipline and help us to try and see a topic from all angles. Anyone in the lecture hall, if they dared, could stand up and try to poke holes in their arguments and perspectives usually to no avail. But, it was the dialogue that I always remembered, and hope to replicate in some form through this blog with the help of its community of readers.
Finally, as appropriate as I think it is to name this blog “Thinking About Thinking”, it’s equally appropriate that the first title of the first post is in question form. I’m not sure I have a lot of answers, but I do have a lot of questions – and this blog will be the venue for airing them. So, here’s to lots of questions, some half-baked answers, and hopefully an interesting discussion all mixed together.
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Love the name and the reasoning behind it… I’m looking forward to what you have to say.
Thanks for following. As you can see, I decided to use WordPress – I know you asked me on twitter. The twittersphere was pretty unanimous about using WordPress. It’s not the easiest to get going with, but it’s the most full featured.
If I named my blog after a class from undergrad that I remember, it probably would have been called, “Sports in Daily Life in Ancient Rome.” Sounds like you were at picking classes than I!
Welcome to the blogging world…I look forward to reading and commenting.
Ambitious concept for a blog. Perhaps you should reach out to other great thinkers to help contribute, since you’re reaching for a high standard by mentioning Dershowitz, Gould and Nozick!
Good luck and looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Hopefully not too ambitious! Should be fun.
Hey Larry. Glad you decided to dive into the blogosphere. I look forward to your posts and the dialogue!
I just can say the same like Michael Weiksner and RogerC :
-> “I look forward to your posts”
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I can’t wait to see the mix of things that you have on here. I love open ended discussions especially. I’m always interested in what goes on in a VC’s world, and if you plan on bringing a broad array of topics into the equation, it could be a very fun read! Looking forward to it.
I am glad you chose to start a blog. Hoping the subjects will not be the standard fare and you will look to cut through BS and deliver the meaty essence.
“Thinking about Thinking”… I’m not sure how much of that went on during college, but I know we sure did a lot of “Thinking about Studying . . . Nah.”
I look forward to the debate, I enjoyed our time blogging together at FV, this should be fun. You have setup a great forum.
Should be fun – do you have a blog?
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Just subscribed to your Blog after TC recommended it on Twitter. All the best.
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Looking forward to your thoughts, Lawrence. I took that class in part because you had talked it up so much. Indeed it was one of my favorites as well. My seldom-updated blog (see link) also uses WordPress.
Thanks Ryno, I have subscribed to your blog!
Great concept! Looking forward to reading about the various topics and your thinking around them.
Btw, did you get into the Univ of Michigan?
Larry — looking forward to interesting debates! Should be fun..
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