Uncovered Bookmarks #16: Feeling like a Superhero
Built a time-tracking dashboard and uncovered Leo Castelli's art show posters
The life of a VC is one of constant meetings and frequent context switching. It’s critical to spend time on the right things, so I colour-code my calendar, and each quarter audit my time, which can be a painful exercise.
After last week’s post, a reader recommended I try Google’s Antigravity. So, over the weekend, I built a dashboard to track my time. It took about 4 hours, but most of that was waiting for the prompts to execute. An hours-long infrequent process now takes seconds. I feel like a superhero:
I started reading Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art about the emergence of the art scene in New York. It led me down this rabbit hole of Leo Castelli art show posters, which I love:
Everything about the Boom Supersonic story is extraordinary, this is no different:
The internet is wild — someone’s collected all the most consequential collaborations in history and described what made them possible:
I don’t even care if this is AI:
Consensus investing continues. Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi said the same this week:
“I’m a little bit worried,” he said. “There’s definitely too much of everybody doing the same thing in general…It’s kind of like watching kids play soccer—all of them run towards the same ball. Then, there’s a big collision in the middle, somebody kicks the ball somewhere else—and then all of them run that way.”
All the best UI/UX starts in gaming:
Time to stop trying to sell software to tech companies, they’re rolling their own across so many domains now:
Tracks
Rounding out the year with two of my favourite albums:
I’m taking the next two weeks off to disconnect and spend time with family. Hope you get some time too.
If you read or hear anything during the break that you love, send it my way…









You might find something here as well, in spirit of your time tracker: https://github.com/mboverell/ai-chief-of-staff
Oh I love that secondrenaissance site, great find!