Writing

Something that’s frustrating about investing in non-purely-software companies is the poverty of vocabulary. People talk about “deep tech”, “hard tech”, “frontier tech”, “atoms”, and so on. Sometimes they just mean to distinguish hardware from software companies, sometimes to distinguish technical [...]  Read more

Over the last month, a half dozen people I know have been targets of account takeover attacks and unfortunately, a few of those attacks were successful. Most of these account takeover attacks were aimed at Coinbase accounts. I have written [...]  Read more

Over the last month, a half dozen people I know have been targets of account takeover attacks and unfortunately, a few of those attacks were successful. Most of these account takeover attacks were aimed at Coinbase accounts. I have written [...]  Read more

For the past several years my wife Carrie has been working with Optimist and Linda Xie to make a documentary film about Vitalik Buterin , the creator of Ethereum. Inspired by what they learned, they have developed the film in [...]  Read more

For the past several years my wife Carrie has been working with Optimist and Linda Xie to make a documentary film about Vitalik Buterin , the creator of Ethereum. Inspired by what they learned, they have developed the film in [...]  Read more

Several years ago, I read Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. She writes about a concept called "shitty first drafts " that has stuck with me ever since: Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to [...]  Read more

This is part two in a series about how web3 will influence the future of social networks. In Part One , I wrote about how public social networks will be unbundled and siphoned off into smaller networks that form around interests [...]  Read more