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World After Capital: Work In Progress & Preface
Albert Wenger – Jan 29, 2018
NOTE: One of my goals for 2018 is to bring my book World After Capital to the point where I feel it is good enough to publish in paper form. I have come to realize that if I just keep [...] Read more
Mycroft: Open Consumer Voice Platform
Albert Wenger – Jan 26, 2018
Late in 2016 I wrote a blog post titled “Voice Platforms: Open Alternative is an Opportunity.” At the time I learned about a project called Mycroft. This project has just launched its second version, the Mark II, on Kickstarter. If [...] Read more
Uncertainty Wednesday: Sample Variance (Cont’d)
Albert Wenger – Jan 24, 2018
Last Uncertainty Wednesday, I used meteorite impact data to make the point that sample variance may be much smaller than actual variance. Following the post, I was asked a great question on Twitter: “Is there such thing as estimation error [...] Read more
The Importance of Sleep
Albert Wenger – Jan 22, 2018
It appears that some people genetically need only 4 hours of sleep per night. Well, I am not one of them. I also don’t seem to be needing less sleep as I am getting older. Instead, I have come to [...] Read more
Martin Luther King Jr Supported Basic Income
Albert Wenger – Jan 15, 2018
We have the USV office closed today in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day. In his book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community” he wrote: I strongly recommend reading a longer excerpt from the book, which [...] Read more
A SIM Switch Account Takeover (Mine)
Albert Wenger – Jan 12, 2018
It happened on the second to last day of a wonderful family trip to Southeast Asia. I looked at my mobile phone in the morning and it had an alert that said something like “SIM not recognized.” I should have [...] Read more
Meltdown and Spectre are Good … for Innovation
Albert Wenger – Jan 4, 2018
So I am still away on family vacation and following a self-imposed online diet, but even then it has been impossible to ignore the monster sized vulnerabilities disclosed today known as Meltdown and Spectre. And just to make sure nobody [...] Read more
Blogging, Twitter and Email Break
Albert Wenger – Dec 22, 2017
As 2017 draws to a close I will be taking a break from blogging, twitter and (for the most part) email until well into January. I have a great set of book recommendations – far too many to get through [...] Read more
Looking for Book Recommendations
Albert Wenger – Dec 18, 2017
We are about to go away on a three week trip. Long trips have been a wonderful aspect of homeschooling our children. We are fortunate to have the means to show them different parts of the world and this year [...] Read more