
The Butter Thesis
At USV, we talk a lot about our investment thesis. The USV thesis is a set of ideas that has guided our investing over the years. It is a tool we u...
From Crypto-Native to Crypto-Enabled
I’m not one to make big annual predictions, but one thing that seems likely to me is that 2024 will mark the emergence of mainstream apps powered by ...
You Never Know When You've Had a Good Day
Many years ago, when I had just started working at USV, I remember there was kind of a complicated situation that unfolded in a seemingly bad way, and I'll never forget what Brad said in response. He said:you never know when you've had a good dayI didn't really understand what that meant, so he told me a story that went something like: back around the year 2000 at the height of the dot-com boom, there was a guy who was a senior exec at a successful startup. That person had a falling out with ...

The Butter Thesis
At USV, we talk a lot about our investment thesis. The USV thesis is a set of ideas that has guided our investing over the years. It is a tool we u...
From Crypto-Native to Crypto-Enabled
I’m not one to make big annual predictions, but one thing that seems likely to me is that 2024 will mark the emergence of mainstream apps powered by ...
You Never Know When You've Had a Good Day
Many years ago, when I had just started working at USV, I remember there was kind of a complicated situation that unfolded in a seemingly bad way, and I'll never forget what Brad said in response. He said:you never know when you've had a good dayI didn't really understand what that meant, so he told me a story that went something like: back around the year 2000 at the height of the dot-com boom, there was a guy who was a senior exec at a successful startup. That person had a falling out with ...
Share Dialog
Share Dialog
Cescalouise and I have started using Wunderlist to keep track of shared to-dos (bills to pay, stuff to buy, etc). I’ve been a user of Wunderlist for a number of years now and have written about it before.
The shared lists in Wunderlist actually seem to be working for us. Whenever she adds or updates an item, I get a notification, and vice versa. This is helpful, for me at least, and can hopefully help her get less annoyed at me for forgetting things :)
I mentioned yesterday that I thought it was working pretty well, and her response was: “we’ll see. systems cover up symptoms.” Which is a fair point, I think. It’s easy for me to waste time fiddling around with a perfect system and feel like I’m making a lot of progress, while not actually changing the underlying thing (in this case, not paying attention to things as much as I should).
In this particular case I am hopeful that the system will help solve the root problem, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Cescalouise and I have started using Wunderlist to keep track of shared to-dos (bills to pay, stuff to buy, etc). I’ve been a user of Wunderlist for a number of years now and have written about it before.
The shared lists in Wunderlist actually seem to be working for us. Whenever she adds or updates an item, I get a notification, and vice versa. This is helpful, for me at least, and can hopefully help her get less annoyed at me for forgetting things :)
I mentioned yesterday that I thought it was working pretty well, and her response was: “we’ll see. systems cover up symptoms.” Which is a fair point, I think. It’s easy for me to waste time fiddling around with a perfect system and feel like I’m making a lot of progress, while not actually changing the underlying thing (in this case, not paying attention to things as much as I should).
In this particular case I am hopeful that the system will help solve the root problem, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
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