(via Celebrating 50 Years of the Ford Bronco | A Continuous Lean.)

(via James Blake - The Sound Of Silence - YouTube)

I am delighted to announce today that Spark Capital has led a Series A investment in Bond Street. Bond Street?s co-founder & CEO, David Haber, previously worked with us on the investment team at Spark, so this reunion is especially sweet.It is no secret that we?ve been focused on financial services investments for some time now at Spark. We?ve ...

(via 12 Things To Search For At The Brand New Whitney Museum) Mary Heilmann, Chairs

?One might say that his subtlety was wasted on the young Yeshiva students he was mostly surrounded by. Filled with passion and impatience, a thirst for metaphysical certainty, they would look to him for clear and definitive answers. But they would never come; his endless contextualizations and qualifications were perhaps designed to frustrate his s...

?I want Howard Stern for as long as Howard Stern wants to work. I?m only willing to pay so much. I know what that number is. But even if I was in an al-Qaeda death camp, no one is going to know what that number is but me.? - SiriusXM and Howard Stern in a contract ?dance? - Mar. 11, 2015

?But when the new Umami Burger outlet opens down the street from you (or the new Ivan Ramen outlet, or the new Roy Choi taco joint), you can say a little prayer of thanks (or not) to Chang, Bloomfield, and her partner Friedman. You can thank them for your strange, abiding obsession with brown liquor and craft beers, and the hamburger, and that frag...

?It?s also clear that the authors could not summon up the courage to stop referring to their audience as ?readers? and begin to call them ?users? ? probably because some pedant was worried they?d be confused with dope addicts.? - What the New York Times Could Have Been | LinkedIn Nuff said.

The Internet has enabled the seamless flow of commerce in an unprecedented fashion.?But where transactions go, so do bad actors. We currently estimate online fraud to be a $40B problem, and it?s just getting worse. The few rarified Internet giants like Google & Amazon have built large dedicated teams and sophisticated technology solutions to co...

| Maybe the best commercial I?ve ever seen.

Over the past number of years, there's been an ad-hoc explosion in ‘pop-up' retail spaces.?We've also seen the emergence of meaningful brands being built online that are finding in-person experiences to be massively additive to their businesses.?As our world becomes ever more digitally connected, I believe we are increasingly yearning for com...

??We promise never to ink out a pubic hair or chalk out an organ,? it read. ?We will apologize for nothing. We will uncover the entire world of sex. We will be the Consumer Reports of sex.?? - Al Goldstein, a Publisher Who Took the Romance Out of Sex, Dies at 77 - NYTimes.com

?As meditators, we had prepared for this ? how to move the energy up from the belly and into the heart and out through the head. I have never seen an expression as full of wonder as Lou?s as he died. His hands were doing the water-flowing 21-form of tai chi. His eyes were wide open. I was holding in my arms the person I loved the most in the world,...

(via Lou Reed, Rock ?n? Roll Pioneer, Dies at 71 - NYTimes.com) RIP.

Happy anniversary @hilarykoyfman! Can?t believe it?s been a year already. I love you! (at North Fork Table & Inn)

After the crisis of 2008, it became abundantly clear that our staid financial institutions needed reinventing. So, as they do, talented entrepreneurs got to work. We are now seeing the first wave of post-crisis innovation starting to bear fruit across?lending (e.g. p2p), investing (e.g. crowdfunding), payments (e.g. simple api?s) and other key fina...

(via In Conversation With Michael Bloomberg ? New York Magazine) I love this photo.

??If there?s any broader issue I have with the Valley,? Karp says, it?s that ?you?d have to be out of your mind to live in Palo Alto.?? - By Design | David Karp is Tumblr?s Reluctant Technologist - NYTimes.com

Disclosure, When A Fire Starts To Burn Can?t get this song out of my head!

?It appears that I have a better relationship with my children than Rupert Murdoch.? - BuzzFeed?s Chairman, Ken Lerer, Doesn?t Mind Nepotism - NYTimes.com Quote of the day from one of my favorites, Kenny Lerer.

So long, beautiful. It was fun while it lasted. #lebaron #retired cc: @hilarykoyfman @chrissiemiller

Ben Pierce, What I Might Do Picked up this little diddy in London. #addicted

?Colen, for example, is less concerned with matters of style than he is with aspects of process.? - The Curious Case of Dan Colen | The Aesthete I think this is the essence of great contemporary art. Process is as much the thing as the outcome is.

(via Libya in Mind, Obama Urges Better Security at Embassies - NYTimes.com) Seems like overkill for an umbrella holder.

karmakarmanyc: Sam Falls, Lattice Edition of 10 handmade books, each unique Gottlund Verlag, Kutztown, PA, 2013 9.5 x 12.5 inches (24 x 31.5?cm) Enquire Love.

?The world is so big, so complicated, so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to begin to notice that it is, also, irretrievably broken. We call this period of research ?childhood.?? - Wes Anderson?s Worlds by Michael Chabon | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

It?s no secret that I am a lover of marketplace businesses and have been for some time. I?ve long believed in the power of the web to uniquely aggregate disparate supply & demand into a frictionless, transaction-oriented platform. It?s something we think about a lot at Spark and we?ve put our money where our mouth is, with investments in Skills...

@hilaryrosenman?s beautiful Passover table. #kitchensurfing

?A son of Bensonhurst, a professed old-school detective, he talked about how to make a suspect talk and where to buy the best pizza (New Haven, he advised).? - Brooklyn Prosecutor to Seek Freedom of Man Convicted in 1990 Killing of Rabbi - NYTimes.com

The Virgins, Flashbacks, Memories and Dreams They?re baaaaack.

?Political coverage that wants to be solely high-minded is missing huge chunks of the actual interplay of personality and power that is what actually drives things? - Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed, NYTimes

Ed Koch open yet truthful, caring for all New Yorkers, dealing fairly with his opponents, speaking his mind. The premier mayor of N.Y. The above was part of a poem I wrote in 7th grade about my favorite people, including Mayor Ed Koch. Mayor Koch was a tremendous role model to me in the way that he always spoke his mind and stood up passionately fo...