Thanks to Jonathan for noting my Wall Street Journal column yesterday. I was up at 4am and in line at 5am to be number 19 in the Supreme Court bar line. It ended up being sort of fun. The people around me were interesting and when the sun finally rose, I saw lots of people I knew with whom to chat. The argument was well worth attending also. I may comment on it later if I can. Here is me, taken by Gary O’Connor with his IPhone in the near dark:
In the meantime, here is the original version of my op-ed for the WSJ, which ran the requested length of 1200 words. They then found themselves in a space crunch due to some market stories. (What sort of paper do they think they are running?? Where are their priorities??) Consequently, they cut my essay down to 800 words. It is not easy to cut a piece by 1/3, but their editing was skillful and clever. I thought some VC readers would find it instructive to compare the the published version with the original to see how the editors accomplished this, and what they decided to leave on the cutting room floor (Note that the unpublished version is unedited and may contain glitches for the pedants in the crowd):
A LAYMAN