2026
When you use an Oxford comma, you’re doing your part to make the world beautiful, meaningful, and understandable.
The best advice that sticks is usually tactical. Because strategically, most of us know what we should do. We just don’t know how.
The higher someone climbs, the shorter the attention span becomes. Lead with the point. Then explain it.
USV Analyst 2.0: Fred Wilson of AVC.xyz writes about what humans do that AI agents cannot:
Humans are going to be better at being human for the foreseeable future.
So if you are interested in a career in venture capital and your superpowers include the following things, you would be a great candidate for our new analyst program that will emphasize these things:
- be immersed in networks of early day founders interested in our thesis areas.
- be someone those founders want to share ideas with.
- have great judgement of people and have interesting and compelling points of view.
- be human with other humans and an organizer of great people together.
Your nervous system will tell you when you’ve met your person. It will not feel like fireworks. It will feel like safety.