A historical collection of our writing.
The shift to mobile computing is fully underway. Over time everyone in the world will have a smartphone and data speeds will go up (and hopefully prices for data plans will come down). So the race is on to find the natively mobile versions of many (all?) existing businesses. There is, however, a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
There is a confusion about Bitcoin that trips up a lots of people when they first learn about it: the blockchain is organizationally decentralized but logically centralized! What does this mean? Here is a 2 x 2 matrix that should help: The “organizationally centralized” column on the left contains […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today our portfolio company Lending Club went public. Congratulations to the team And here is founder Renaud Laplanche on the business […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have only written about torture once before here on Continuations as part of my mini review of Zero Dark Thirty. I am glad that after long delays we at least now have a summary of the Senate’s Torture Report. Together with Guantanamo Bay itself, which I have mentioned a few times, and the Drone […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I did not write directly about the death of Michael Brown although what happened in Ferguson was on my mind and I referred to it indirectly. I was not planning to write about the death of Eric Garner but then I saw a tweet last night that reminded me that if you do nothing in […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
If like me you prefer Giving Tuesday over Black Friday and Cyber Monday then it might be a good time to give some money to ChangeX. Susan and I will continue to match any funds 1:1 until $25,000 is reached. ChangeX is helping communities strengthen themselves by seeing what is working for others. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
