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Money Ball for VC
Albert Wenger – Jan 7, 2013
Money Ball was a good movie (I have to admit to not having read the book) with a crucial theme: statistics beats human intuition in complex situations. With the predictions for the 2012 elections we saw the same theme play [...] Read more
Crypto vs (Real) Identity vs Open Society
Albert Wenger – Jan 4, 2013
China is going through a crack down on social media and is apparently now requiring verified real identities online. This is very clearly an attempt to silence criticism and suppress unrest by making it easy to track down who said [...] Read more
A Personal Learning Agenda for 2013: AI and Machine Learning
Albert Wenger – Jan 3, 2013
In my blog posts about employment I have made the point that computers are getting better and better at carrying out tasks that previously required humans. The strongest case in point here are Google’s self driving cars. As recently as [...] Read more
Scuba Certification and the Inverted Classroom
Albert Wenger – Jan 2, 2013
One of our goals for 2012 was to get scuba certified as a family. We took a first run at it in a rushed fashion early in the year but abandoned that effort after a less than pleasant pool dive [...] Read more
Behance Joins Adobe To Scale Creative Network
Albert Wenger – Dec 20, 2012
Earlier this year we invested in New York based Behance. We had known and followed Scott and the team for several years and kept an active dialog about the network of creatives that they have been building. As it turns [...] Read more
Recruiting and Building a Resilient Team: Mission Desire
Albert Wenger – Dec 17, 2012
As a board member I am often actively engaged in helping to recruit new hires to a company. A lot of people have written about the importance of cultural fit. I want to add the idea of “mission desire” to [...] Read more
Sign Gun Control Petition Now
Albert Wenger – Dec 14, 2012
I had a topic in mind for today’s post but in light of the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, that can wait until another day. As a father of three, the thought of children being killed by a gunman [...] Read more
Work and Value in the Digital Economy
Albert Wenger – Dec 12, 2012
Yesterday I attended MIT’s Roundtable on the Digital Economy. It was a gathering convened by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, the authors of Race Against the Machine, to discuss “Work and Value in the Digital Economy.” The gathering brought together [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Bugs and Debugging
Albert Wenger – Dec 11, 2012
Today will be the last Tech Tuesday for 2012 as I will be taking another one of my information slim down breaks starting next week. In the review of programming topics covered so far, I pointed out that we have [...] Read more