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Delicious Thoughts
Albert Wenger – May 3, 2011
I was thrilled to see that delicious has found a new home. Not only do I continue to actively use delicious nearly every day but having been involved intimately with its brief life as a separate company I have an [...] Read more
Catching a Break (Because Life is Unfair)
Albert Wenger – May 2, 2011
As a graduate student at MIT, I studied a bunch of econometrics and one of my favorite instructors was Prof. Jerry Hausman (he of the Hausman test). Prof. Hausman would find a way in every lecture to somehow include his [...] Read more
Reasoning from First Principles
Albert Wenger – Apr 28, 2011
There were a lot of really interesting comments to my question about retail trends earlier this week. Thanks to all who contributed to the discussion. As I am thinking about how to organize all of these, I am reminded that [...] Read more
Looking for Input On Retail Trends
Albert Wenger – Apr 26, 2011
This Friday I will be meeting with some of the senior management from a major branded retail chain in the US to talk about how the web and mobile are impacting their business. In preparation, I am thinking about key [...] Read more
Getting Started with Arduino (in Praise of Adafruit)
Albert Wenger – Apr 25, 2011
I am currently reading James Gleick’s “The Information,” which I highly recommend (more on that in a separate post). In it is a wonderful chapter on Babbage and Lady Ada Lovelace, which makes it clear how amazing her insights into [...] Read more
The Orders of Magnitude of Talent (Or: Why Recruiting Is Hard)
Albert Wenger – Apr 13, 2011
I have always loved the videos illustrating orders of magnitude of scale. It simply seems a marvel that the world around us encompasses all these different scales. It turns out to also be a useful way to think about ability [...] Read more
Selection Trumps Motivation (Solving Google’s Social Problem)
Albert Wenger – Apr 11, 2011
While I have a feeling that Larry Page won’t take any of my suggestions (darn), I am happy to see him come out swinging hard. What a welcome contrast to when Jerry Yang took over as CEO at Yahoo. Several [...] Read more
The Coming Mobile Commoditization Wars
Albert Wenger – Apr 7, 2011
Tech’s history is somewhat reminiscent of the city of Troy, which when it was discovered was found to have many layers with newer ones built on top of the old ones. In tech as new layers get built the old [...] Read more
The Web STP Challenge: Making APIs Useful
Albert Wenger – Apr 5, 2011