A historical collection of our writing.
It is well worth reading the arstechnica piece on the Apple ebook price collusion verdict in full. This is the perfect case study of what happens in markets where some participants have too much power. It is fascinating to see how at first Amazon was using its then 90% market share in the ebook […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
We are excited about going back to homeschooling for our three children after the summer vacation. The goal is for each of them to explore one or more interests and use those to motivate learning and skill building. In order to get ready, we are looking for three awesome individuals we are calling […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
For startups, backup is a lot like security, something you need to have but not something that’s really visible to endusers or that endusers even care about unless of course things go terribly wrong! So in today’s Tech Tuesday I want to talk a bit about backup and will follow up with a broader […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
When we moved back to the city at the beginning of 2012 we experimented for 6 months with homeschooling our kids. They then spent last year at Avenues, a new school in Manhattan. Avenues is a startup (and of course I love startups). The Avenues team did an impressive job coming out of the gate […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last Tech Tuesday, I wrote about a heuristic for prioritization. If you took that approach to its extreme you would always work on only the lowest hanging fruit (at the time). That would of course be an over simplification for several reasons. First, for any but the most trivial projects there will […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In the future we can’t have privacy for the same reason that the record labels and Hollywood can’t have DRM and that’s ultimately a good thing. DRM has proven a fool’s errand because it is not compatible with general purpose computing. At some point a song or movie has to be decrypted in order to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
