### 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](https://avc.com/2019/12/uncut-gems/)

### 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](https://avc.com/2019/12/a-subscription-tracker/)

### 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](https://avc.com/2019/12/video-of-the-week-targeting-tech-is-antitrust-the-answer/)

### 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](https://avc.com/2019/12/funding-friday-the-ifs/)

### 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](https://avc.com/2019/12/smart-home-standards/)

### 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](https://avc.com/2019/12/meet-cute/)

### 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](https://avc.com/2019/12/bluesky/)

### 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](https://avc.com/2019/12/gateways/)

### 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](https://avc.com/2019/12/having-kids/)