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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
To Fix Surveillance, Fix Government
Albert Wenger – Aug 9, 2013
Short post because I am away with the family, but I can’t help myself given the shutdowns of Lavabit and Silent Mail. This is what I mean when I say we are headed for a spy-versus-spy society between citizens and [...] Read more
Listening Too Much / Too Little
Albert Wenger – Aug 8, 2013
It’s been a while since I have written a post in my Scylla and Charybdis series. As a quick refresher, the basic premise of the series is that startups are hard because on pretty much anything you can do too [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Prioritization and Competition
Albert Wenger – Aug 6, 2013
I have written about prioritization previously on Tech Tuesday, introducing a prioritization heuristic and emphasizing the importance of a healthy mix of different projects. Today I want to add some point on how to think about competition in the context [...] Read more
Movie Trailers and Startup Summaries
Albert Wenger – Aug 5, 2013
I love going to the movies and I love science fiction. This summer is bringing a bumper crop of scifi movies (broadly defined). One of the fun aspects for me of going to see a movie is that I will [...] Read more
Here Come the Native Tablet Learning Apps: Homer and Curious Hat
Albert Wenger – Aug 1, 2013
Whenever a new medium or technology becomes available the initial approach is to “repurpose” existing content, such as filmed radio on television. Many of the big education publishers have been approaching tablets that way. They try to grab some assets [...] Read more