Lightspeed partner Jeremy Liew is in some ways the opposite of Andreas Antonopolous – he’s living squarely in the present. He digs into use cases and applications, concludes what the tech is and isn’t good for today, and lays out […]
Kevin is a great interviewer, and Andreas has a very interesting perspective and a deep knowledge of blockchain. I tend to shy away from podcasts, but this is absolutely worthwhile for anyone with interest in blockchain. Andreas is basically living […]
This is great: a step-by-step tutorial for learning how to code smart contracts in Solidity, the language of Ethereum. I’ve finished half already. Oh, and the game you build with this example is called CryptoZombies. How perfect for the internet. […]
Steve Case (AOL founder and investor) announced a new fund investing in places that aren’t Silicon Valley. VC firm M25’s Victor Gutwein analyzes the pros and cons of this fund. | learn more
VC Willy Braun uses two data sets to make the case that the long tail theory (e-commerce will fatten and stretch the tail because of endless aisles) hasn’t played out as expected. Instead, we’re seeing an even stronger emphasis on […]
Until very recently, anything voice-enabled tended to suck. When I first plugged in my Echo earlier this year, it sucked a lot less. I realized this is the start of a shift in how we interact with our homes and […]
“Residents of Illinois towns who get their water from a private company rather than a municipal supplier pay far more and say they’re being squeezed for profit.” | learn more
Some of them seem useful, and then there’s others like “cycling will become the state’s official exercise” that make me cringe. I guess the legislature needed to fill the time while failing to pass a budget for so long. | learn more
“[E]xperts are warning that we will soon see a rise in the number of ‘digisexuals’ – people whose sexual and emotional appetites are almost entirely satisfied by the virtual world.” I’m stuck somewhere between facepalm 🤦 and trying really hard not to judge 👨⚖️. | learn more
I first heard of party lines from a customer in rural Canada who said, “when you call me back, it’ll ring for a while before I answer because it’s a party line.” I had no idea what he was talking […]