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Is it 1880 or 1914?
Albert Wenger – Jul 23, 2014
I haven’t been posting much the last couple of weeks. There are a variety of reasons for that including spending extra time reading and learning new things but the main reason is that I am trying to understand better where [...] Read more
Looking for a Personal Assistant
Albert Wenger – Jul 21, 2014
Susan and I are looking for a personal assistant to help with many different organizational tasks. If you know someone who might be interested, please point them to our Craigslist ad. We built a simple video application process using Ziggeo [...] Read more
CPU and Memory are the New Crude Oil
Albert Wenger – Jul 15, 2014
The definition of a commodity is a good that is “supplied without qualitative differentiation." You can’t charge more than others for crude oil, you have to turn it at least into gasoline. And if you really want to charge a [...] Read more
SeeChange: Video Will Be Everywhere (What Do We Want?)
Albert Wenger – Jul 14, 2014
I recently finished Dave Eggers’s “The Circle” which provided a good challenge to my baseline view that more transparency is good and that data protection is a futile effort. One of the systems in the novel is an easy to [...] Read more
More On Basic Income (and Robots)
Albert Wenger – Jul 7, 2014
Marc Andreessen recently wrote a post titled “This is Probably a Good Time to Say That I Don’t Believe Robots Will Eat All the Jobs …” – like all of Marc’s posts it is full of good ideas and worth [...] Read more
A Basic Income Experiment I Would Like to See (Detroit)
Albert Wenger – Jun 24, 2014
I have referred to a basic income many times here on Continuations so now it is time to flush out a bit more how this could ever possibly work. Many people do simple back of the envelope math like saying [...] Read more
Debating Disruption: Mind the Non-linear
Albert Wenger – Jun 23, 2014
Following the publication of Jill Lepore’s “The Disruption Machine” and Clayton Christensen’s vigorous response in an interview there has been a healthy debate around the merits and even existence of disruption in many posts and tweets. I had been busy [...] Read more
Computer Bootcamp Day 2: Hosting Your Website
Albert Wenger – Jun 22, 2014
Today was the second day of our mini computer bootcamp for friends and family. The goal was to have a functioning and hosted website up and running. We started out by using nslookup to find the IP address of a [...] Read more
Computer Bootcamp Day 1: Raspberry Pi
Albert Wenger – Jun 21, 2014
This weekend we are holding a two-day computer bootcamp for our kids, some friends of theirs and a handful of adults. Here is a recap of the first day both as a reminder and reference for those who participated and [...] Read more