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Tech Tuesday Revisited: Index

Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger – Aug 23, 2016

I am about to start a new series (on uncertainty) and so I decided it would be fun to go back and index all the old Tech Tuesday posts. Here is is (also available as a Google Document): Computing’s Building [...]  Read more

Seeking Hardware Hacking Advice

Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger – Aug 22, 2016

We have a couple of split air conditioners. One of them is reasonably old (1987 model) and when we bought the place it came without a remote. We will eventually have to redo the roof and will replace all ACs [...]  Read more

All Hands: Take Questions in Advance

Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger – Aug 10, 2016

And now for something different: just some pragmatic advice. You should run all hands meetings in your company. They are a key bonding and communication opportunity. You can have them until you are quite large – for instance, Twilio, which [...]  Read more

Fat Protocols

Joel Monegro

Joel Monegro – Aug 8, 2016

Note: see the 2020 follow-up post here: Thin Applications Here's one way to think about the differences between the Internet and the Blockchain. The previous generation of shared protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP, etc.) produced immeasurable amounts of value, but most [...]  Read more

Sign All Things

Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger – Aug 8, 2016

I have written repeatedly about why I don’t think “encrypt all things” is the right answer for constructing a democratic society going forward. I am, however, a fan of the idea to “sign all things.” What I mean by this [...]  Read more

Alternative Compliance

Nick Grossman

Nick Grossman – Aug 4, 2016

To better support small businesses operating in regulated sectors, we should develop “alternative compliance” mechanisms — parallel regulatory regimes that achieve the goals of existing regulations but take an alternative, data-oriented approach to achieving them. Such an approach would be [...]  Read more

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