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Trust and Personal Scaling
Albert Wenger – Oct 31, 2011
I have had the privilege of observing a number of founders grow their companies from just a few people to over a hundred employees. Leaving all the other growth challenges aside, I have come to conclude that personal scaling is [...] Read more
Codecademy
Albert Wenger – Oct 28, 2011
Andy has a great post over at the USV blog announcing our investment in Codecademy. Knowing how computers work and how to program them I believe will be quintessential knowledge for everyone. It is shocking to me that I had [...] Read more
Help Stop the Internet Censorship Bill
Albert Wenger – Oct 27, 2011
There is an awful bill making its way around congress. I first wrote about this when it was called COICA and was thankfully defeated due to opposition from Senator Ron Wyden. Then it returned as the PROTECT IP act or [...] Read more
John McCarthy
Albert Wenger – Oct 26, 2011
This has been a strange month with several of the giants of computing passing away within weeks of each other. I have already written about Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie. Now John McCarthy, the father of Lisp and early AI [...] Read more
Foundations of Probability (My New Skillshare Class)
Albert Wenger – Oct 24, 2011
When I taught my Skillshare class on Bayesian Probability, I wound up spending a fair bit of time sharing my fascination with the foundations of probability. Why is there uncertainty in the world to begin with? How do we measure [...] Read more
The B Corporation
Albert Wenger – Oct 20, 2011
I attended an interesting lunch yesterday on something called the B Corporation. It is an effort to formally write the idea of triple bottom line businesses into corporate law and provide the standards to go along with that. Today’s common [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Of Bits and Bytes (Binary Number System)
Albert Wenger – Oct 18, 2011
Before we can go on and explore the building blocks in more detail, we need to learn a little bit about the fundamental underlying language used in computers: the binary number system. Based on my kids’ school, this appears to [...] Read more
Occupy Wall Street: Some Foundational Thoughts
Albert Wenger – Oct 17, 2011
So I was wrong when I wrote that Occupy Wall Street would at best help draw media attention to inequality. I had suggested that instead folks should spend their time building startups that disrupt existing institutions. It now seems that [...] Read more
dmr
Albert Wenger – Oct 14, 2011
Dennis M. Ritchie passed away yesterday. Ritchie was the creator of the C programming language and the co-creator of the Unix operating system (together with Ken Thompson) starting in the late 60s and early 70s. Both C and Unix have [...] Read more