A historical collection of our writing.
It is hard for me to believe that I wrote my post “I Want a New Platform” over seven years ago. At the time that post led to our investment in MongoDB, which was then called 10gen. The company was started by Eliot Horowitz and Dwight Merriman inside of AlleyCorp, the New York based incubator […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Why write here about the massacre at the offices of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo? Because most of what I have been writing on Continuations is about developing a coherent view of what comes next for humanity. It is about finding a way forward in a world of extraordinary new technological […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I was going to write some more about deflation today but then Vice posted a piece on Universal Basic Income (UBI) by Nathan Schneider yesterday. I suggest you read it and then come back here for a response. 1. After introducing my support for UBI, Nathan writes “[Albert is] worried about the clever […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday I wrote about how free or low priced online courses are beginning to put pressure on pricing in education. As a small addendum to that: the same day the New York Times ran a front page story about home schooling recognizing the growing importance of that movement (which in turn is enabled […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have been arguing that we live in an era of technological deflation driven by advances in computing (including robotics). In the US, the prices for consumer durables peaked in the mid 1990s as this chart from the St. Louis Fed shows. There are still ways in which monetary policy and potentially […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
A couple of years back we got scuba certified as a family. This year we took our first real dive trip. We stayed at the amazingly located Itza Lodge on Long Caye which is part of the Lighthouse Reef in Belize. Since we are still learning we did most of our diving right off Long […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
