Writing

I’ve written before about how re-structuring identity is one of the most interesting opportunities on the web today. Today’s identity ecosystem is account-based (accounts with Google, Facebook, Apple, etc), which perpetuates data silos and prevents interoperability & innovation. As web3 [...]  Read more

Playing cards and listening to the blues is the perfect combo and this deck of cards celebrates that. I backed this project immediately when I saw it this morning. It has five days to go and is 70% of the [...]  Read more

I was in a board meeting for most of yesterday so I did not watch the theatrics on Capitol Hill. William told me that there were many calls for breaking up the big tech companies. So I thought I would [...]  Read more

Crypto has been on a tear in the last week. Bitcoin is up 18% in the last seven days: Ethereum is up over 30% in the last week: But this isn’t the first time we’ve had a bullish run in [...]  Read more

Vinod Khosla penned a fantastic blog post this week outlining how a few entrepreneurs have made a material impact on clean energy and reducing our collective carbon footprint in the last decade and how a few more can move the [...]  Read more

I wrote a post last week that incensed some people who took issue both with my use of the term fascism and with the apparent focus on the deployment of DHS agents in Portland. Based on the comments here is [...]  Read more

By now, if you are in tech and haven’t been on an extended Techmeme and Twitter break you have heard about GPT-3 a new and massive language model developed by OpenAI. I have played around with it a bit myself [...]  Read more

It has been a stressful year, in so many ways. This morning, I opened up my Calm app to attempt to resurrect my meditation habit. I have had an intermittent meditation practice for years, and despite the fact that it [...]  Read more