A historical collection of our writing.
I am excited about Foursquare’s upcoming releases of two apps to unbundle social features from discovery features. You can read a detailed story about it over on the Verge reported by Ben Popper. Ben covers a lot of different angles. What’s worth emphasizing is how much courage it takes for a team […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This will be the topic for my talk at DLD New York this coming Thursday. Here is the rough outline. If anyone has data to contribute I would much appreciate it since I am admittedly long on anecdotes and short on statistics. 1. Disappearance of growth. Here I will talk about how GDP is increasingly […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am still not finished reading “Capital in the 21st Century” but the following introduction to Chapter 11 really got me thinking: One of my main intuitions about the coming changes is that “information” will become more important than industrial, financial and real estate assets. Or put […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Living in New York City and having cut the cord years ago, Aereo has been a terrific service for us. Yesterday the US Supreme Court started hearing arguments over whether the service is legal. Timothy B. Lee has an outstanding summary of the background of the case and what’s a stake over at Vox. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday I wrote about startup wealth and randomness and got a lot of good comments. One of them led me to an important way of summarizing my argument about the role of randomness: While I wrote the post specifically about startup founders, employees and investors, I believe the same is true for […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have been writing a lot about wealth and income inequality and I am reading Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century (review forthcoming as soon as I am finished). So it seems appropriate to ask how I feel about the wealth being created by tech startups for entrepreneurs, early employees and […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
