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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
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