Writing
Choose
Back to Homeschooling!
Albert Wenger – Jul 8, 2013
When we moved back to the city at the beginning of 2012 we experimented for 6 months with homeschooling our kids. They then spent last year at Avenues, a new school in Manhattan. Avenues is a startup (and of course [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: More on Prioritization
Albert Wenger – Jul 2, 2013
Last Tech Tuesday, I wrote about a heuristic for prioritization. If you took that approach to its extreme you would always work on only the lowest hanging fruit (at the time). That would of course be an over simplification for [...] Read more
On the Relation Between Privacy And DRM
Albert Wenger – Jul 1, 2013
In the future we can’t have privacy for the same reason that the record labels and Hollywood can’t have DRM and that’s ultimately a good thing. DRM has proven a fool’s errand because it is not compatible with general purpose [...] Read more
Google Glass Update
Albert Wenger – Jun 27, 2013
I wrote before that I am quite bullish on certain professional and niche personal applications of Google Glass but find the adoption strategy puzzling. Having just tried Glass for the first time I feel quite comfortable with both of these [...] Read more
Contracts: Defining Future Negotiations
Albert Wenger – Jun 26, 2013
Contracts are necessary to doing business but surprisingly many people miss a central point about them: they define the starting point for future negotiations. Where you actually wind up as an outcome depends on both the contract and external factors [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: A Prioritization Heuristic
Albert Wenger – Jun 25, 2013
Startups are heavily resource constrained and so prioritization of what to work on becomes paramount. In today’s Tech Tuesday I want to share an important heuristic that many companies can benefit from. The point of departure for this the well [...] Read more
Firebase
Albert Wenger – Jun 20, 2013
Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." I have always had mixed feelings about this quote because as an engineer my reaction to something really advanced like self driving cars is to want [...] Read more
In Praise of Internet Exceptionalism
Albert Wenger – Jun 13, 2013
I have been meaning to write about “internet exceptionalism” since I read a post titled “It Always Comes Down to Math” but various political and economic events intervened. The key quote summarizing the post is “but at the end of [...] Read more
Surveillance: Beware the Turkey Argument on Terrorism
Albert Wenger – Jun 12, 2013
I think it is super important in the current debate about government surveillance to separate two different arguments. First, I have stated and continue to believe that large scale secret programs without supervision and without checks and balances are unacceptable [...] Read more