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VC in three exited Unicorns. Angel investor. Harvard Business School Lecturer. Obsessed with fly fishing and a recovering ENTJ.

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The Museum of Science

August 4, 2018August 6, 2018 Jo Tango

With heavy rain coming, a family sub-group is at the Boston Museum of Science. We wanted to see the new space exhibit. Also, I didn’t want to sit around the house. The exhibit was extremely interesting and well worth it. My favorite part was a satellite video of the earth, flashed onto a large screen.

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Our Family NYC Weekend

August 1, 2018August 2, 2018 Jo Tango

Last weekend, we did a family stay in NYC. One of our children is doing a summer internship in Manhattan, and we thought it would be a great time to see her and get together as a family. I’ve lived twice in Manhattan. But, both times, I worked very long hours and had little time

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Andrew Yang and Universal Basic Income

July 22, 2018July 2, 2020 Jo Tango

We have a large rainstorm blowing through the area all day. So, it is a great time to simmer an all-day pasta sauce, exercise and read. One book I recently read and enjoyed is Andrew Yang’s The War on Normal People. Here is how the book starts: “I am writing from inside the tech bubble to

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Nelson Mandela

July 19, 2018July 20, 2018 Jo Tango

Apartheid-era South Africa was an oppressive and lame place for many, but Nelson Mandela peacefully transitioned it. You’d have to be truly screwed-up to look for “best practices” among Nazi-era laws to institute a national system that segregated people by race and controlled them by force. In 1948, the regime did just that. 20% of

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Angel Investment: HomeBinder.com

July 11, 2018July 11, 2018 Jo Tango

I’m really excited to write that our family angel program has invested in HomeBinder.com. Founder Jack Huntress is a very thoughtful and thorough entrepreneur. From the moment we met him, we found him to be a very transparent and driven, traits that we really like to see. Jack also has overcome prior life challenges, showing

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The River of Life

July 7, 2018July 9, 2018 Jo Tango

Tucked away in the back of the closet, there’s a tie that every man has. It rarely appears, and, when it does, it is with a white shirt and a dark suit, a veritable uniform. The tie is solid black. It is the funeral tie. When a man touches this tie, when he slowly puts

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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
Tying Small Flies
Fishing Small Flies
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Writing My Wrongs
Simple Path
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
Dynamic Nymphing: Tactics, Techniques, and Flies from Around the World
The Sun Also Rises
A Moveable Feast
The Great Gatsby
The Little Prince
Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia
The Laughing Sutra
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Man's Search for Meaning
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End


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