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Architecture and Basic Income
Albert Wenger – Feb 26, 2018
On Friday afternoon I met with a class of architecture students who are researching the relationship between architecture and basic income. This strikes me as a super important issue to work on. One of my contentions in World After Capital [...] Read more
Driving Yourself vs Being Driven
Fred Wilson – Feb 25, 2018
Living in LA has always meant owning a car. I remember when the Gotham Gal was a senior in college and got a semester long internship in LA. Her first comment to me back then was “now I have to [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: How To Emerge From The Internet Dark Ages
Fred Wilson – Feb 24, 2018
In this talk, Muneeb Ali , founder of our portfolio company Blockstack , calls the period we are in right now “the dark ages of the Internet” and explains why he sees it that way. He goes on to talk [...] Read more
How to make big problems small and small problems big
Nick Grossman – Feb 22, 2018
Avoidance is to be avoided. — Nick Grossman (@nickgrossman) February 22, 2018 I’m on a plane right now. I always find plane/train rides to be some of the best times to focus and get work done. On this trip, I [...] Read more
The Promise Of Parkland
Fred Wilson – Feb 22, 2018
This post is not about the tragedy that happened at Parkland or the gun safety debate that has been re-energized by it. Those are both worthy topics but I’m not opining on them today. I do hope that this tragedy, [...] Read more
The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
Fred Wilson – Feb 21, 2018
I listened to Sam Harris talk to Niall Ferguson yesterday on Sam’s Waking Up podcast . Niall is a historian, an author, a journalist, and an academic. He has just published a new book on a topic that is near [...] Read more
Crypto/Blockchain Safe Harbor
Albert Wenger – Feb 21, 2018
During the initial growth of the Internet, the United States enacted a variety of Safe Harbors, such as the DMCA, that allowed new innovation to unfold. We now need a similar approach to crypto tokens in order to help build [...] Read more
Prioritizing Content Consumption
Fred Wilson – Feb 20, 2018
A reader recently wrote me this email: I’d be very interested in a blog piece from you on how you prioritise what content to read/watch/listen to. There’s so much out there, and it doesn’t stop. You seem to balance a [...] Read more
Hiring New Analysts (Update 1)
Albert Wenger – Feb 19, 2018
A quick update on our analyst hiring process. We received 326 applications. Andy and I have so far reviewed 190 of those and plan to complete that initial review by the end of next weekend. We will contact everyone with next steps the week of February 26th. Read more