### 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](https://paragraph.xyz/@jaredhecht/portugal-the-country).

### 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](https://blog.usv.com/consensus).

### 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](https://paragraph.xyz/@jaredhecht/vinyl-records).

### 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](https://paragraph.xyz/@jaredhecht/brian-eno-and-generative-film).

### 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](https://paragraph.xyz/@jaredhecht/vitalik-an-ethereum-story).

### 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](https://blog.usv.com/curiosity-networks).

### 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](https://paragraph.xyz/@jaredhecht/shitty-first-drafts).

### 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](https://paragraph.xyz/@jaredhecht/real-life-networks).