A historical collection of our writing.
Jared HechtI love being outdoors in nature. Whether with friends or entirely by myself, it’s where I’m happiest. This summer I got to spend a lot of time outdoors. We stay in the Catskills and there is something very special about being surrounded by green and trees and animals and dirt roads. It’s calming […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)
Jared HechtMy favorite mode of transportation in NYC is the electric citibike. I ride one every morning to and from the USV office. There’s a dock on my block in Brooklyn and a dock around the corner from our office. I love my route – it’s a straight shot across the Manhattan Bridge where I get […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)
Jared HechtDecentralized Physical Infrastructure, or DePIN, has the potential to reshape the dynamics of some of the world’s most important markets. Over the past decade, projects have tackled a broad range of industries: information storage, 5G and LoRaWAN, mapping and weather data, computing power, internet […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)
Jared HechtI’m a chess player and one of the things I still enjoy about twitter is stumbling on diagrams of chess tactics and trying to solve them. A couple weeks ago I thought I had the answer to a tactic so I started to scroll through the responses to see if it was right. That’s when […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)
Jared HechtEarlier this week, I hopped in an Uber with my family to get to our Lisbon apartment rental, and I felt a profound appreciation for the company. We were in a foreign country, and with the tap of a button, I could summon a car to safely get us home. It was reliable and worked […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)
Jared HechtWe just had a family vacation in Portugal. Last summer, we took our kids to Italy for two weeks and showed them Rome, Umbria, and Sardinia. It was a magical trip so we decided to do it again and this time traveled across Lisbon, Algarve, and Santa Cruz for roughly ten days. There are so […] Read more (opens Jared Hecht in a new tab)
