FTX: Robinhood’s Savior?

Hey everyone! How was your 4th of July Weekend???  I spent Sunday with some old friends from college and childhood that I haven’t seen in way too long. It was electric. I am very happy I got this newsletter done on Friday as my head is still throbbing from the weekend. (Yes Mom. That is a hangover joke!).  Two housekeeping…

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A ‘clear’ path to decarbonization

I had the opportunity to ping over some q’s to Lincoln Payton, CEO of Cleartrace. Cleartrace announced a $20M strategic equity raise this week to expand its emissions tracking & traceability platform.  Carbon accounting is a broad term covering many software and hardware businesses and it’s a space that’s receiving a ton of attention of late.…

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Different Care, Same City

Same, Same But Different Same age. Same sex. Same illness. Different treatment. This is unwarranted clinical variation; it is care that is not consistent with a patient’s preference or related to a patient’s underlying illness. The U.S. has a significant problem with unwarranted clinical variation, stemming from its inherent complexity. This isn’t a benign problem,…

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Municipalities, President Biden, and the future industry.

How local governments impact cannabis​ I talk a lot about federal regulations (lookin’ at you, last Sunday’s newsletter). I talk a lot about state regulations, too.  I don’t, however, talk much about municipality regulations.  It’s up to each U.S. state to legalize cannabis or not. But referendums also exist in most states that allow individual municipalities to opt-in or…

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Work Life Balance Advice From A Workaholic

Let’s talk a little bit about work life balance today. I do want to preface some things: I’m probably a workaholic and I have really weird working patterns. My ideal day on the east coast starts around 10AM, and I break up the day into 4-5 hour chunks of time, with probably 1-2 breaks in…

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