Rather than quotes, this time I’m leaving you with the recently released TED Talk by Chad Frischmann. It’s been out for a week, and the video already has more than 600,000 views.

Fernbank is a special place to me. I have fond memories of visiting as a child, whether on a school field trip or with my family. It’s where I learned about the dinosaurs as a young boy, and to this day I continue to learn from the amazing exhibits that they bring to the museum.

I hope that you are able to gather with your family this week and find peace and joy in the time spent together. It really is a special time of year.

We’ve made great strides in reducing our waste stream at home. Organics go in the compost bin. Recyclables go in the blue bin, and other recyclables are regularly taken to Atlanta’s Center for Hard to Recycle Materials. Now, we’ve discovered the TerraCycle Zero Waste Box.

I’m on vacation this week, so I will skip writing a blog. Per usual though, I wanted to leave you with a link to quotes, this time from Unilever’s CEO, Paul Polman.

What matters most, however, are not the conversations that we have with our guests. It’s the conversations our guests have among themselves. Those conversations are the largest part of why we host RayDay, and we can’t know even a small fraction of what comes from them.

While not technically engaged in venture capital, my fellow judges and I did award $100,000 to the winning team, along with smaller prize money to the other teams. It definitely scratches the itch.

While lots of coverage of Hurricane Michael focused on the coastal communities, there hasn't been enough paid to the impact on Georgia agriculture.

We still have a chance of reaching the aspirational goal, but we need to move quickly. I urge you not to lose hope. Losing hope is futile, especially when what we need now is action.