On Friday afternoon I met with a class of architecture students who are researching the relationship between architecture and basic income. This strikes me as a super important issue to work on. One of my contentions in World After Capital is that with basic income the current trend towards everyone living in cities will be broken. As we are starting to need less land for agriculture (through improved yields and vertical farming), land outside of cities can be quite affordable. The trick will...

On Friday afternoon I met with a class of architecture students who are researching the relationship between architecture and basic income. This strikes me as a super important issue to work on. One of my contentions in World After Capital is that with basic income the current trend towards everyone living in cities will be broken. As we are starting to need less land for agriculture (through improved yields and vertical farming), land outside of cities can be quite affordable. The trick will...

One of the great things about being focused on investing in web services is that the technical challenges faced by almost all of the companies in the Union Square Ventures portfolio tend to be the same. The solutions on the other hand vary widely. Some companies rack their own servers, others are at traditional hosting companies and some are entirely in the cloud. Some use Java, others PHP, many mix languages. You get the idea. And: there is no obvious correlation between the tools companies ...

One of the great things about being focused on investing in web services is that the technical challenges faced by almost all of the companies in the Union Square Ventures portfolio tend to be the same. The solutions on the other hand vary widely. Some companies rack their own servers, others are at traditional hosting companies and some are entirely in the cloud. Some use Java, others PHP, many mix languages. You get the idea. And: there is no obvious correlation between the tools companies ...