Writing

My friend Fraser took a large number of AVC blog posts over the years and trained an AI model on them. The result is a blog written by a machine. You can see it here . One one hand, it [...]  Read more

I just nominated five candidates for the next election of the Harvard Board of Overseers as part of an effort organized by Harvard Forward . The school has made the process comically complicated by requiring that each nomination be submitted in [...]  Read more

I was listening to this podcast on the treadmill this morning. It is a conversation between Peter McCormack and Andreas Antonopoulos about Bitcoin, Privacy, Freedom, and a lot more. At one point Andreas says that we have digital money already, [...]  Read more

Last week, as I have done for the last several years, I gave a guest lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.  The class is DPI-662: Digital Government: Technology, Policy, and Public Service Innovation taught by my old friend [...]  Read more

We went to the Knicks Celtics game last night. For three and a half quarters the Knicks and Celtics played a tight game and the game was tied at 95 with six minutes left when Coach Fizdale called a time [...]  Read more

So far I have been writing about the climate crisis primarily as a threat, an extinction level threat for the human species. But the climate crisis is also humanity’s biggest opportunity. It is our opportunity to leave the Industrial Age [...]  Read more

A few weeks ago I started having a strange sensation in my right thigh. When I moved my leg, it felt as if something was slithering between my skin and my muscle in the marked area (these are not my [...]  Read more

It is tempting to search for the one magic move that will make everything better. A new VP of Sales. A new database layer in your tech stack. A new brand for your company. Moving everything to the cloud. More [...]  Read more

This is a talk that Muneeb Ali , co-founder and CEO of our portfolio company Blockstack , gave at their “Can’t Be Evil” summit last month in the bay area. Read more