Writing

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

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

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

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

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

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

Today Fred wrote a post about how writing is a conversation. There are some incredible gems in it: What I have learned from writing online regularly for over twenty years is that writing online is a conversation. What I mean [...]  Read more

I believe that creating a successful consumer product can be attributed to somewhere between 70-90% luck and 10-30% executing against that luck. A lot of things have to go right: timing, product, distribution, zeitgeist, etc. So much of it is [...]  Read more