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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
We Need Mandatory Enduser APIs for Social and Search Systems
Albert Wenger – Mar 30, 2018
When #DeleteUber was a trending hashtag it was relatively easy for people to take action in those cities where Lyft, MyTaxi or some other service was available. Even if you didn’t delete the Uber app outright, you could move it [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: The Problem with P-Values (Intro)
Albert Wenger – Mar 28, 2018
As promised for some time, today in Uncertainty Wednesday, I will talk about p-values and what makes them so problematic. We will once again look at a super simple example by going back to considering a coin flip. As before [...] Read more
World After Capital: Laying a Foundation (Optimism)
Albert Wenger – Mar 26, 2018
NOTE: The following section is the beginning of Part One of my book World After Capital. I have been posting revisions here most Mondays. Part One: Laying a Foundation In an earlier version of this book I attempted to skip [...] Read more