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An Alternative to Mandatory APIs: Let Me “Hack Myself”
Albert Wenger – Apr 20, 2018
I recently wrote a post about requiring APIs for social and other applications that have more then 1 million users. Now that is an approach to the problem of market power that adds new regulations. There is an alternative that [...] Read more
Shapeways Expands Services for Creators
Albert Wenger – Apr 18, 2018
Shapeways has printed over 10 million different products. This has allowed Shapeways to hone its printing and logistical capabilities. Along the way, the team has also developed great insights into the needs of creators. We are excited that Shapeways is expanding its service offering accordingly. Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: The Problem with P-Values (Learning)
Albert Wenger – Apr 18, 2018
Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday will be the concluding post in my mini-series on the problem with p-values. We have already seen that it is much easier than expected to reject a null hypothesis if you have incentives to do so. We [...] Read more
World After Capital: Laying a Foundation (Scarcity)
Albert Wenger – Apr 16, 2018
NOTE: I am continuing to publish revised sections from my book World After Capital. Today’s section provides a technological definition of scarcity (instead of an economic one) and provides a brief history of how scarcity has shifted over time from [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: The Problem with P-Values (Generating Hypotheses)
Albert Wenger – Apr 11, 2018
Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday continues our exploration into p-values and why they are problematic. Last Wednesday we saw that if you have incentives to reject a null hypothesis, it takes less work than you would initially think to find data that [...] Read more
World After Capital: Laying a Foundation (Humanism)
Albert Wenger – Apr 9, 2018
NOTE: I am continuing to publish revised sections from my book World After Capital. Today’s section contains a central idea of the book, which is that the existence of knowledge provides an objective basis for humanism and establishes critical inquiry [...] Read more
From Advertising to Subscriptions and the Evolution of the USV Investment Thesis
Albert Wenger – Apr 6, 2018
Earlier this week Rebecca posted the latest evolution of the USV thesis. It includes the words “trusted brands” which led some people to ask how an early stage company could already be that. I provided the answer in a tweet [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: The Problem with P-Values (Incentives)
Albert Wenger – Apr 4, 2018
Last Uncertainty Wednesday, I introduced the concept of p-values. We looked at the example of a null hypothesis (explanation) that a coin is fair, observing heads (H) or tails (T) six times in a row and rejecting that the coin [...] Read more
World After Capital: Laying a Foundation (Regulation & Self-Regulation)
Albert Wenger – Apr 2, 2018
NOTE: I am continuing to publish revised sections from my book World After Capital here. These sections on Regulation and Self-Regulation follow the one on Optimism to make clear my belief that technology will not automatically makes things better but [...] Read more