Writing
Choose
Uncertainty Wednesday: Thinking about Ruin
Albert Wenger – Nov 1, 2018
This is an Uncertainty Wednesday post on a Thursday. By going over the Wednesdays from the last couple of years you could try to quantify the probability that I will not write an Uncertainty Wednesday post at all, or that [...] Read more
Voting in the Midterms: Rebuking Trump’s Tribalism and Hate
Albert Wenger – Oct 29, 2018
I have not been blogging a lot, other than the occasional updated excerpt from World After Capital and a few posts in my Uncertainty Wednesday series. The reason is that I am struggling with the relevance of much of what [...] Read more
World After Capital: Technological Deflation
Albert Wenger – Oct 22, 2018
NOTE: I have been posting excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s section is about technological deflation and how its interaction with UBI enhances economic freedom. If you are currently struggling to pay for your basic needs, the world [...] Read more
Criticism Should be Welcome: Roubini Crypto Edition
Albert Wenger – Oct 12, 2018
Nouriel Roubini has done the crypto ecosystem a great service by pulling together pretty much all issues and criticisms in a single document. While he is prone to hyperbole (not unlike some people in crypto) and plays fast and loose [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: The Trouble with Slow Risk (Climate Change)
Albert Wenger – Oct 10, 2018
People worry about many risks, but generally about the wrong ones. We tend to be obsessed with personal and societal risk that is “fast.” What will the Fed Reserve announce next? Should I trust Tesla’s auto steering? These are risks [...] Read more
World After Capital: Economic Freedom (Intro, Universal Basic Income)
Albert Wenger – Oct 8, 2018
NOTE: I am resuming posting excerpts from my book World After Capital. The last post was the beginning of Part Three of the book. Today’s post is the the introduction to the concept of economic freedom and how universal basic [...] Read more
Interoperability and Competition (for Scooters, Bikes, etc)
Albert Wenger – Oct 5, 2018
I was in Berlin a couple of weeks ago and there appear to be at least half a dozen bicycle and scooter networks in the city. This makes for a terrible experience because you have to sort of guess which [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: To Know or Not to Know?
Albert Wenger – Oct 3, 2018
Our most recent read for the USV book club was the Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. The book chronicles the lives of siblings who as adolescents were foretold the dates of their deaths. One of the key questions we talked about [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Grit and Purpose
Albert Wenger – Sep 26, 2018
Last Uncertainty Wednesday I wrote that “Stuff can and will go wrong, with varying degrees of bad consequences.” One direct corollary of this is that we will all face setbacks in our life. A key question then is what happens [...] Read more