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Dec 23, 2019

As is my tradition, I made a playlist of songs that stayed with me in 2019. This year, I focused on songs that mostly flew below the radar and aren’t likely to be heard on everyone else’s top tracks playlists. Read more

Dec 22, 2019

My brother in law Jerry is working on a project to collect all of his family’s digital subscriptions; subscriptions to streaming video services, music services, subscriptions to online news and other publications, subscriptions to software services, subscriptions to education services, Read more

Dec 21, 2019

USV’s portfolio company Recount Media produces excellent short (5 mins or less) videos about political news and related topics. They also produce the Shift series of events . In November, Recount did a Shift event about Antitrust policy and my Read more

Dec 20, 2019

You all know that I have a huge soft spot for anything that helps kids learn to program computers and other things and this project does exactly that. I backed it today and am sharing it with all of you. Read more

Dec 19, 2019

Yesterday, Apple, Google, and Amazon announced that they are teaming up with Zigbee and creating a working group called Project Connected Home Over IP . The Verge has a good post on what is going on here and why . Read more

Dec 18, 2019

An interesting project came out of USV this year. My partner Andy had a hunch about short form content, audio entertainment, and romantic comedy and he launched a company to explore these ideas called Meet Cute . Meet Cute produces Read more

Dec 17, 2019

Twitter announced their Bluesky project last week. This is what I had to say about it, on Twitter naturally. I wrote about these feelings 3 1/2 years ago in this post https://t.co/yC2JOmOFqu — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) December 11, 2019 /fin Read more

Dec 16, 2019

Most big technology changes don’t come out of nowhere. There are predecessor technologies that predate and portend what is to come. I like to call these predecessor technologies “gateways.” In the case of the web, there were two important gateways. Read more

Dec 15, 2019

Paul Graham wrote a blog post this week about having kids . I read it with interest because I have long noticed that having kids has had a profound and positive effect on Paul. So I was interested in what Read more