A historical collection of our writing.
Too many people seem to be having a moment of Schadenfreude in the wake of the Ashley Madison hack – what were “those” people thinking of having an affair (estimates for the overall percentage of married adults having affairs range from 30-60%) or at least of being so “dumb” as to use a service to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Just last week I wrote that there are legitimate concerns about Uber. Using congestion as the reason to limit the company’s expansion while ordering a study seems wrong and exactly the kind of political move that smacks of corruption. Given that Bill de Blasio received significant support from taxi […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday Hilary Clinton mentioned the “gig economy” in a speech. She said This is of course a topic I have been speaking and writing about a lot. Like Fred, I think that this is a discussion we need to have. I think the framing though of the question has to be quite different. We need […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
There were two tweets about Uber recently that I found myself disagreeing with somewhat. Paul Graham tweeted And on the same day Chris Sacca (who is an investor in Uber) tweeted What do I not like about them? Equating Uber with the much larger idea of using technology to efficiently connect people […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last week I had the opportunity to cross something off my bucket list: sailing faster than the wind. Now at first this sounds like a preposterous idea – if the wind is pushing you, then how could you go faster than it? It seems the equivalent of the Baron Munchausen pulling himself from a swamp […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I remember well debating the concept a single European currency with my Dad when I was growing up in Germany long before the Euro was actually introduced. As a teenager I was fervently in favor and he was deeply skeptical. I am now watching with fascination how the very concerns my Dad had at the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
