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A Modest Proposal: 10 Ways to Incentivize New Yorker to Give Up their Plastic Bags
Bethany Crystal – Apr 1, 2019
I don’t know about you, but when I heard the announcement that New York is one year away from banning all plastic bags from being distributed in our city, I panicked. Then I counted my stockpile. I have exactly 25 [...] Read more
World After Capital: Freedom to Share
Albert Wenger – Apr 1, 2019
NOTE: Today’s excerpt from my book World After Capital continues the chapter on psychological freedom. After the prior excerpts on freedom to learn and create, today is about the freedom to share. Even after we have created something, many of [...] Read more
Portable TV and Music
Fred Wilson – Mar 31, 2019
We just packed up an Airbnb that we have been living in for three months in Los Angeles and are heading back east. This is a photo of my carry on luggage as I was packing it this morning. That [...] Read more
Video Of The Week: Vitalik Buterin – The Unchained Podcast Interview
Fred Wilson – Mar 30, 2019
As I mentioned last week, at the start of this interview Laura Shin plays a bit of my “rant” about Ethereum losing it’s lead. Vitalik, as is his nature, calmly reacts to it and rebuts it. The entire interview is [...] Read more
How to [Unexpectedly] Frame Your Day
Bethany Crystal – Mar 29, 2019
Sometimes all it takes is a fun prop to dramatically change the way you interact with the world around you. Yesterday on my way to work, I found an old picture frame. It was leaning against a trash can just [...] Read more
More S1 Fun
Fred Wilson – Mar 28, 2019
We are now seeing a wave of longtime private companies coming public and with that we are getting data on usage, financial performance, and a host of other issues that is very useful market data. I spent some time looking [...] Read more
Fewer Cars More Mass Transit
Fred Wilson – Mar 27, 2019
Well it looks like NYC is finally going to get congestion pricing , a technique used successfully in a number of cities around the world to reduce the number of cars on the road and increase the investment in mass [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Mueller Report Edition (Hindsight Bias)
Albert Wenger – Mar 27, 2019
In the last few Uncertainty Wednesdays, we have been looking at various fallacies arising from our lack of appreciation of uncertainty, such as imperfect correlation (narrative fallacy) and the baserate fallacy. Today we will look at hindsight bias, for which [...] Read more
Equity Via Inclusion
Fred Wilson – Mar 26, 2019
We’ve been trying a big ambitious experiment in NYC over the last five years. We are training over 5,000 teachers to teach computer science classes in elementary school, middle school, and high school. We call it CS4All . It sounds [...] Read more