A historical collection of our writing.
As I wrote in my earlier blog post, VR is something that needs to be experienced to be fully appreciated. Once you do experience it, get past the initial amazing fascination and start playing games a fairly glaring problem reveals itself: how to navigate the amazing worlds that are all around you. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The Star Trek replicator stands as the ultimate dream of on-demand manufacturing. The bad news is that despite advances in 3D printing we are many breakthroughs (including nearly abundant energy) away from realizing that dream. The good news is that we are finally finding ourselves on the cusp of a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
At USV we have been using Carlota Perez’s framework that distinguishes between the installation and deployment phases of a technology. In short, the installation phase is when a technology first comes into a market and investments are capacity building. The deployment phase is when this capacity is […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
We first invested in Skillshare almost five years ago. At the time the company was focused on in person classes. While many of those were as engaging as I had hoped, it was difficult to grow. Coming to an in person class is a big commitment, teachers didn’t have an audience and many had a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am bummed to be missing Twilio’s annual Signal Conference this year. Not just because Jeff does a fantastic keynote, but because Twilio always announces a truckload of amazing new goodness. Here are just two great things from yesterday: first, a marketplace for add-ons which lets third parties […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I can still remember the first time that I experienced the web, which was on a workstation in a lab at MIT in late 1993 (Mosaic had come out in January of that year). The experience of easily accessing remote content and navigating from one site to another simply by clicking on a link was […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
