One of the first conversations I had when I moved to California was with Kaliya, about alternative models of ownership for startups. I know it's something that's come up at events like Future of Money, and it's interesting to see it emerge in USV's question of the week. What would ...
January 27, 2015
Aaron Chimbel, over on PBS MediaShift:At most universities, students are required to take English
composition courses, and at many others speech and/or foreign language
classes are also required. Yet in the debate about teaching code in
journalism programs, code is often reduced to a shiny toy.I've argued before
that learning ...
January 26, 2015
The musician Zoë Keating (who I admire) has written a very transparent, and a little sad, post about the decision she needs to make about YouTube:They were nice and took time to explain everything clearly to me, but
the message was firm: I have to decide. I need to sign ...
January 23, 2015
This is a summarized version of my talk at Hacks and Hackers tonight at Matter in San Francisco.This last summer, Alberto Guzman, a hairdresser in New York, uploaded a picture of him and his husband sharing a kiss on their wedding day. He tagged it with the hashtag #happy, as ...
January 16, 2015