A historical collection of our writing.
Marc Andreessen recently wrote a post titled “This is Probably a Good Time to Say That I Don’t Believe Robots Will Eat All the Jobs ...” – like all of Marc’s posts it is full of good ideas and worth reading. I agree with many of the points including the benefits of technology driven deflation […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have referred to a basic income many times here on Continuations so now it is time to flush out a bit more how this could ever possibly work. Many people do simple back of the envelope math like saying there are 319 million people in the US, so if you paid each of them […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Following the publication of Jill Lepore’s “The Disruption Machine” and Clayton Christensen’s vigorous response in an interview there has been a healthy debate around the merits and even existence of disruption in many posts and tweets. I had been busy preparing for and then teaching a computer […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today was the second day of our mini computer bootcamp for friends and family. The goal was to have a functioning and hosted website up and running. We started out by using nslookup to find the IP address of a web server – we use ziggeo.com as an example. If you are on Mac OS […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This weekend we are holding a two-day computer bootcamp for our kids, some friends of theirs and a handful of adults. Here is a recap of the first day both as a reminder and reference for those who participated and as an outline for anybody else who wants to try this. We started by watching […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Shapeways is a partner for Google’s brand new MadeWithCode initiative aimed at getting more girls excited about coding and computational thinking. What is important about this initiative is that it will broaden the understanding of what can be done with code. Code is not just games or websites. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
