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Climate Crisis Part 1: Reading
Albert Wenger – Jul 29, 2019
I no longer say “climate crisis” – instead I now call it what it is, the “climate crisis.” If you don’t think it is a crisis, I recommend the following readings. http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdfhttps://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 Both papers – in very different ways – make the [...] Read more
Climate Crisis Part 1: Reading
Albert Wenger – Jul 29, 2019
I no longer say “climate change” – instead I now call it what it is, the “climate crisis.” If you don’t think it is a crisis, I recommend the following readings. http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdfhttps://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252 Both papers – in very different ways – [...] Read more
AI and the Allocation of Attention
Albert Wenger – Jul 26, 2019
Here is a talk which I gave at the Rise of AI conference in Berlin earlier this year on the topic of Artificial Intelligence and the allocation of attention. It explicitly links what is happening online to the climate crisis. Read more
Smart Thermostats
Fred Wilson – Jul 22, 2019
My colleague Dani sent me this chart last week: I believe this is more or less a proxy for smart wifi-enabled thermostats in the US. Those would be Nest, Honeywell Lyric, Hive thermostats and a lot of others too. Those [...] Read more
The Trouble with Emoji
Albert Wenger – Jul 22, 2019
I know several wonderful people involved with the process of creating new emoji and occasionally see them celebrating an addition. I understand the motivation for representing more people, such as the recent addition of interskintone couples. And yet, each time [...] Read more
Parenting
Fred Wilson – Jul 21, 2019
Parenting is the hardest and greatest job that I have had. It presents the thorniest problems and generates the greatest rewards. We had the pleasure of spending most of yesterday with our three kids and their significant others. The occasion [...] Read more
10x Engineers
Albert Wenger – Jul 18, 2019
A recent series of tweets about identifying 10x software engineers set off a lot of making fun of the author for perpetuating a myth. Given the wording of the tweets too they made a particularly easy target (I can’t actually [...] Read more
10x Engineers
Albert Wenger – Jul 18, 2019
A recent series of tweets about identifying 10x software engineers set off a lot of making fun of the author for perpetuating a myth. Given the wording of the tweets too they made a particularly easy target (I can’t actually [...] Read more
Abridge
Fred Wilson – Jul 17, 2019
We seed funded a company late last year called Abridge and the company went public yesterday with their iOS and Android apps. Naomi wrote about the investment on the USV blog. I want to focus on the product because I [...] Read more