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Bitcoin: The Wild West Years
Albert Wenger – Apr 4, 2013
Anybody following bitcoin will know that the cryptographic currency had a huge run up recently that has brought with it an increase in fraudulent activities, including a DDoS attack on Mt. Gox and an epic theft of $3.5 million worth [...] Read more
New York City Crosswalks: Safety and Bayes
Albert Wenger – Apr 3, 2013
This morning’s NY Times has a couple of interesting stories. The first is that apparently the rate for bribery in NY State and City legislatures is as low as $20K. But the one that really caught my attention was the [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Growing Your Engineering Organization
Albert Wenger – Apr 2, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday I wrote about evolving your technology as you grow. As, if not more important, is how you grow your engineering organization. They after all are the ones who need to make the right choices about the technology! [...] Read more
The Unbundling of Publishing
Albert Wenger – Apr 1, 2013
Tonight I am giving a brief talk at a Publishing Point event organized by Susan and Jenny. Here are some notes that I pulled together in preparation, written up as a blog post. At USV one of our big investment [...] Read more
We Need Bees, Not Monsanto
Albert Wenger – Mar 29, 2013
A while back I had stopped worrying about bee Colony Collapse Disorder because it had been out of the news for a while. From this morning’s New York Times it seems like I was wrong. Apparently if anything the rate [...] Read more
More Power to the States?
Albert Wenger – Mar 28, 2013
I have started reading Antifragile by Nassim Taleb (review coming when I am done with it). As an early example of a system that gets better under stress he mentions city states (presumably as they existed in ancient Greece). At [...] Read more
Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer (Book Review)
Albert Wenger – Mar 27, 2013
While Moonwalking with Einstein isn’t a new book – it was published in 2011 – I only just got around to reading it. The book’s subtitle is “The Art and Science of Remembering Everything” and it uses modern day memory [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Evolving Your Technology As You Grow
Albert Wenger – Mar 26, 2013
The last two Tech Tuesdays were about choosing technology as a startup. Today we are talking about what to do once you are up and running. Let me start by categorically stating what you should never, ever do: rewrite everything [...] Read more
There is No Free Will (And That’s OK)
Albert Wenger – Mar 25, 2013
A couple of weeks ago I heard Brian Greene state there is no scientific basis for free will. It was a powerful statement because he made it quite categorically and tersely. And it really jolted me into thinking about this [...] Read more