Writing

Kevin Kelly , who has been an editor at Wired and Whole Earth Review, is funding this book project on Kickstarter . He is attempting to capture the many cultures in Asia that are disappearing with modernization. I backed the [...]  Read more

I have a Samsung Frame in my home office. I think I posted a photo of it here at AVC once before. But for those who did not see that post, here it is: I’ve had it for something like [...]  Read more

A friend and I dined last night at a restaurant that opened in our neighborhood last summer, in the middle of the pandemic. For the first six months of its existence, they could not welcome diners into the space that [...]  Read more

I wrote about crypto and climate earlier this month and suggested that the narrative that crypto is bad for the climate is not as straightforward as many make it out to be. Over last weekend (a beautiful one in the [...]  Read more

The more you know about the climate crisis, the harder it is to not be depressed at least some of the time. The challenges ahead are vast and the will to action still small by comparison. So we already know [...]  Read more

I could not help but use the word Freemium in the headline to this post. For those that don’t know, the word Freemium was invented here at AVC, back in 2006 . I am quite proud of that fact, even [...]  Read more

One of my favorite things about crypto is that, every so often, your conception of what it is changes. Bitcoin at first was “weird internet money” and then it was “a protocol ” and then it was “digital gold”. Ethereum [...]  Read more

I have been asked how I can reconcile my support for crypto/blockchain with my concerns about the climate crisis. So here is a blog post laying this out. Crypto/blockchain is a fundamental innovation that addresses an important problems facing us [...]  Read more

This project was right at the front of my Kickstarter home page this morning. I clicked play and watched the video (you should too ). The project creator, Daniel Wegner , says “there is power in young people, there is [...]  Read more