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SecureDrop: Fighting Government Secrecy
Albert Wenger – Oct 17, 2013
I was asked on Twitter what I think about SecureDrop. The short answer is that I am thrilled to see it. Just like I was thrilled about the New Yorker’s StrongBox which is based on the same original code by [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Math Motivation
Albert Wenger – Oct 16, 2013
It is definitely Homeschool Wednesday in our household, as Susan has a blog post out about raising active decision makers. My post today will be about math. There are a great many problems with how math is taught in schools [...] Read more
Twitter: Life is Unfair?
Albert Wenger – Oct 14, 2013
At MIT one of my statistics classes was taught by Prof. Jerry Hausman (of the Hausman test). In every class Prof. Hausman would at some point reach a result and then exclaim “and this proves that life is unfair” (usually [...] Read more
Context > Content
Andy Weissman – Oct 14, 2013
"The context in which makes possible an underlying sense of the way it all fits together despite our collective tendency not to conceive of it as such" - The Books, "Smells Like Content" I was with a friend the other [...] Read more
Amazon Activate for Seed Funded Startups
Albert Wenger – Oct 11, 2013
I am often asked about what has changed in Venture Capital and how that has impacted startups. Inevitably I answer that the right place to start when looking for impact on startups is Amazon. My line is: “Amazon has done [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Presentations (Public Speaking)
Albert Wenger – Oct 10, 2013
One of the skills we want all of our kids to learn is how to present. This seems like one of those universally useful things: being able to get up in front of an audience and get them to listen [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Second Anniversary Celebration (and Recap)
Albert Wenger – Oct 8, 2013
It turns out I announced Tech Tuesday just over two years ago and wrote the first actual post on Tuesday, October 11, 2011, titled “Computing’s Building Blocks.” Today I am recapping some of the major themes that I have covered [...] Read more
Silk Road and Law Enforcement Online
Albert Wenger – Oct 3, 2013
So yesterday the Feds busted the guy behind Silk Road, the marketplace for drugs and other illegal things paid in bitcoin. The indictment reads like a screenplay for a movie or Breaking Bad style television series (not that I watched [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: The Trinity of Design
Albert Wenger – Oct 1, 2013
The last two Tech Tuesdays were about common blindspots for all engineering founding teams (marketing, sales) and ditto for all business founding teams (technology). In the comments Brandon asked “how many designer led companies have these problems”? The short answer [...] Read more