Writing

I am in Hong Kong this week for Blockstack ‘s Decentralizing the World Tour (more on that in a forthcoming post).   I arrived yesterday and have been exploring the city a bit. The first observation is how awful the air [...]  Read more

USV’s book club book for this month is Drug Dealer, MD , by Dr. Anna Lembke , Director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford Hospital – so we have spent a bunch of time recently talking about addiction. It is not [...]  Read more

Debt is a complicated subject.  On the one hand, it is empowering — it lets you get a quick start on something, and lets you do things that would not be possible otherwise.  There are times when it is useful, [...]  Read more

For the past week or so, I have been experimenting with the Pixel Slate , Google’s new hybrid tablet/laptop. Here is me typing this blog post right now, on the train to NYC. For a longer,  more technical analysis, this review [...]  Read more

Disclaimer: I am  not a lawyer, and I am not your lawyer. I have been in an uncountable number of conversations over the past few years discussing the question of what defines a “security” in the context of cryptocurrencies, cryptonetworks, [...]  Read more

Our good friend Chris Burniske was on Squawk Box this morning. I got up and watched it.  You can see the video here . Of course there is interest in the crypto market right now, as it is falling hard. [...]  Read more

One of my favorite things to do is get my hands into something and figure out how it works, whether that’s an app, or a gadget, or a house. For example, over the past few months I have been renovating [...]  Read more

With real-time, interconnected, self-executing systems, sometimes when things wrong, they go really wrong.  I wrote about this general idea previously here . Yesterday, while I was writing my post on Trusted Brands , I was doing a little searching through [...]  Read more

Today is election day.  I’m on a plane today, so I voted early, a few days ago.  I cast my vote and it felt good. I marked my paper ballot with a marker (for optical scanning) glued it shut into [...]  Read more