A historical collection of our writing.
One of my favorite quotes is William Gibson’s “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” He apparently said this for the first time as far back as 1993 and it seems more true today than ever. We now have self driving cars and heel-to-toe walking robots. And at the same […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today, we have joined a large and diverse group of companies, non-profits and consumer advocates in an open letter urging the US government to allow internet and telecom companies to freely report statistics on government surveillance requests. As we’ve discussed before, standing up for your users […] Read more
The Internet makes possible unprecedented levels of transparency. That is why it all the more disconcerting that large government programs operate entirely in secret. Nick Grossman has an important post up today on the USV blog about starting by giving companies the right to disclose government […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today was an important day for Benefit Corporations: Governor Markell signed a Delaware Benefit Corporation Statute into law. I had the pleasure of presenting an investor perspective at the signing. Here is roughly what I said: Our problem as society is no longer how to make more stuff. Cars, […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last Tech Tuesday I wrote about the importance of having backups and testing whether you can restore from them. While this sounds like something everyone should or would do it is all too easy with the many things a startup has to do to forget about them. Backup is part of the larger disaster […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Not that long ago when I was still living in the suburbs the next town over embarked on a massive construction project for a big new public library. I recall thinking at the time: but what will they put there? Of course books aren’t going away over night but still if you are on the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
