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Aug 21, 2024

We just had a family vacation in Portugal. Last summer, we took our kids to Italy for two weeks and showed them Rome, Umbria, and Sardinia. It was a magical trip so we decided to do it again and this Read more.

Aug 14, 2024

Let’s explore two themes we believe are deeply important at USV: the fragmentation of search and broadening access to and accelerating our collective foundation of knowledge. Read more.

Aug 5, 2024

The other day I woke up to the sounds of A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. We recently bought a record player for our home. Carrie requested one for her birthday. I never grew up with vinyl records, so I Read more.

Aug 2, 2024

This week my wife Carrie, a documentary film producer, took me to see Eno. The director of the film is Gary Hustwit, who previously made the film Helvetica. Eno is a spectacular film and I encourage Read more.

Jul 23, 2024

For the past several years my wife Carrie has been working with Optimist and Linda Xie to make a documentary film about Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum. Inspired by what they learned, they have developed the film in Read more.

Jul 19, 2024

Over the past twenty years, internet-native entertainment companies across social media and gaming have been able to create large networks of engaged users without having to pay for content creation. They relied on user-generated content (e.g., social media) to attract Read more.

Jul 10, 2024

Several years ago, I read Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. She writes about a concept called "shitty first drafts" that has stuck with me ever since: Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to Read more.

Jul 9, 2024

This is part two in a series about how web3 will influence the future of social networks. In Part One, I wrote about how public social networks will be unbundled and siphoned off into smaller networks that form around interests Read more.