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Fred Wilson

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Jan 1, 2020

It’s 2020. Time to look forward to the decade that is upon us. One of my favorite quotes, attributed to Bill Gates, is that people overestimate what will happen in a year and underestimate what will happen in a decade. Read more

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Dec 31, 2019

My friend Steve Kane suggested I take a longer view in my pair of year end posts this year: What, no decade end/decade ahead posts? — Steven Kane (@stevenkane) December 26, 2019 And so I will. Here are the big Read more

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Dec 30, 2019

As I’m gearing up for two big posts tomorrow and wednesday, I will simply give you a link (courtesy of Nick ) to read. Cory Doctorow’s EFF post on Adversarial Interoperability explains the move we need to make to fix Read more

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Dec 29, 2019

As Jason Wright said in the comments to yesterday’s post: This blog is rendering like it’s 1998 in Safari and Chrome at the moment. The theme that renders AVC in WordPress got messed up somehow and we are having a Read more

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Dec 28, 2019

Our daughter suggested that The Gotham Gal and I watch this documentary on Netflix . We did that this week. My New Year’s Resolution this time last year was to reduce the number of meals where I ate meat to Read more

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Dec 27, 2019

This project seeks to use drones to plant 1bn trees. Reforestation is an important part of climate mitigation and reforestation projects are behind many carbon offset programs. So technology like this could make all of that a lot more efficient. Read more

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Dec 26, 2019

As I prepare to write my annual year end posts (what happened and what will happen), I have been reading similar posts by others. This part one of two posts by Alex Danco is good. I am waiting for the Read more

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Dec 25, 2019

I really like Stevie Wonder’s song from the late 60s written by Anna Gordy Gaye, George “Horgay” Gordy and Allen Story. The song lays out what Christmas means; candles burning low, mistletoe, snow and ice, carols right outside my door. Read more

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Dec 24, 2019

Our dog Ollie is eleven today. Here is a photo of him on the beach with a tennis ball, pretty much his favorite place to be and thing to do. Read more