[dvt]

> actual domain experts

Calling a VC a "domain expert" is like calling an alcoholic a "libation engineer." VC blogs are, in the best case, mildly informative, and in the worst, borderline fraudulent (the Sequoia SBF piece being a recent example, but there are hundreds).

The incentives are, even in a true "domain expert" case (think: doctors, engineers, economists), often opaque. But when it comes to VCs, this gets ratcheted up by an order of magnitude.

[alephnerd]

Tom has had a fairly solid track record at Redpoint and now Theory in Data, Enterprise SaaS, and AI/ML. And it's not like we see many posts by engineers, doctors, or economists on HN either - most posts are listicles about the "culture" of technology, an increased amount of political articles growing increasingly tenuously related to the tech industry, and a portion of actually interesting technical content.

[hodgesrm]

Martin Casado is a counter-example. His writings on technology starting with his phd thesis are very informative. [0] He’s the real thing as are many others.

[0] http://yuba.stanford.edu/~casado/mcthesis.pdf