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Microsoft Phones!
Albert Wenger – Sep 3, 2013
No Tech Tuesday today as I am pondering the big news that Microsoft is acquiring Nokia’s devices and services business. From glancing at the deal terms it is not clear to me whether this was really an offensive move (as [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Meetup
Albert Wenger – Aug 28, 2013
Whenever you are doing something out of the norm – and homeschooling is still that – it is good to find other people who are doing the same and connect with them. A great place to do that is our [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Beware the Bleeding Edge
Albert Wenger – Aug 27, 2013
Today’s Tech Tuesday is a relatively short note on the “Bleeding Edge” – technologies that are even beyond the cutting edge. Every technology tends to start life at the bleeding edge with early releases that are unstable and poorly tested, [...] Read more
Jobs (Movie Review)
Albert Wenger – Aug 26, 2013
We went to see Jobs on Saturday night with our older son who is interested in being an entrepreneur. I had heard that the reviews had been largely bad and didn’t have high expectations going in. I left the movie [...] Read more
Government Undermining the Foundations of Democracy: Where is the Outrage?
Albert Wenger – Aug 22, 2013
So the sentence for Chelsea Manning is 35 years. The intention of government here is obvious: like everything else in the ridiculously harsh treatment of Manning it is an attempt to deter others from leaking information. So is the detention [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Lifelong Learning
Albert Wenger – Aug 21, 2013
Time for Homeschool Wednesday! On of the biggest goals for homeschooling that I can think of is to instill a desire for lifelong learning and to provide the tools to achieve that. As I am beginning to understand from reading [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Team Diversity
Albert Wenger – Aug 20, 2013
I already hinted at this topic in my last Tech Tuesday, when I wrote about having a healthy mix of young and more experienced engineers. More generally, diversity in engineering teams (and teams more generally) tends to be a healthy [...] Read more
Not So Broad Band: We Need a Utility Model
Albert Wenger – Aug 19, 2013
We live Chelsea, which is a mostly residential neighborhood in Manhattan and theoretically one of the world’s leading cities. Yet I have a choice of exactly one true broadband provider: Time Warner Cable. Verizon at my address offers DSL only, [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: The Role of Experience
Albert Wenger – Aug 13, 2013
I have written before on Tech Tuesday on how to grow engineering teams but wanted to tackle this issue again from a slightly different perspective: what is the role of experience? Startup engineering teams often start out skewing very young [...] Read more