A historical collection of our writing.
We are entering the information age, and as such our fundamental models for accomplishing our goals are changing. In the case of regulation, that means a shift from the industrial, permission-based model to the internet-native, accountability based model […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Both individually and collectively we learn more from our failures than from our successes. Failures make us question our assumptions, successes generally don’t. I therefore welcome the hack of the DAO (even if I wind up losing the 0.5 BTC I had converted to Ether and invested). It is exposing a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
When you wake up in the morning You’ll have a brand new feeling And you’ll find yourself healing -Daniel Johnston The nature of the way we interact – or desire to interact – with medicine and our medical care is starting to change fundamentally. This is less about the unbundling of medicine (which […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
When we first invested in Wattpad in 2011, we were excited about the community for writing and reading stories that was growing all around the world. Much as happened since then, including the publication of After which was a breakout hit and is being developed into a movie. Based in part on the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
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)
