Why Boloco Needs to Be Your Next Tenant
Note: This was a journal entry written in late 2018 after sending a proposal to John Hancock – who owned the space on Copley Square we were considering at the time. We had a...
Author: John Pepper
LinkedIN Profile
I’ve decided to move my LinkedIN Profile here. Trying to reduce presence on apps, etc. ———— Entrepreneur and Early-Stage Investor. I’ve been investing “on the side” since I backed B.Good (www.bgood.com) in 2003 (sold...
Linked In Trickery
I tested “Hibernate” mode on LinkedIn the other day on a particularly frustrating day. Would it make a difference in any way, I wondered. A “Mental Health” day, let’s call it. Answer for me...
Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
It took me many years to stop apologizing for saying the same things over and over again, year after year, as we built Boloco. As I go through and purge old files in the...
Write Little, Write A Lot, Just Don’t Write Nothing
Note: ChatGPT 4.0 Prompt to what were pretty bare bones notes: “Can you rewrite my entry to make it more provocative?” I’m not thrilled with posting this reasonably useless piece of writing, but I...
Time’s Relentless March: Navigating the Shifting Sands of Modernity
The relentless march of time is both a blessing and a curse, simultaneously chipping away at our youth and driving humanity to new heights. Our perception of “modern times” is an ever-changing kaleidoscope, continuously...
Meetings with “Pepper” on Calendar Invites
Maybe this should have been titled Good Calendar Etiquette. A few times a week I receive calendar invites from others where the title of the invite is “Meeting with Pepper” or “Pepper Breakfast” or...
Unexpected Beauty in Stick Season
This fall singer-songwriter Noah Kahan released a new album called Stick Season. He grew up in Strafford, VT about 10 minutes from where I live in Hanover, NH. I never thought of a season...
White Lotus
No spoilers. I haven’t slept well yet this year, thanks in large part to binge watching (1-1.5 episodes per night) White Lotus. We have 2 episodes remaining (that I can see) in Season 2....
Et Tu, Brute?
So the story goes… on March 15 (the Ides of March), 44 BC, the historic Caesar was attacked by a group of senators, including Brutus, who was Caesar’s friend and protégé. Grabbed this from Wikipedia not surprisingly. When I...
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