A historical collection of our writing.
A few months ago we invested in Toronto-based Wattpad. In introducing the investment, I wrote the following paragraph on the Union Square Ventures blog: Since then Wattpad has moved into a new office and celebrated its 5th birthday. Yes – Wattpad isn’t some kind of overnight success that came out […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Whenever my kids tell me how their teachers don’t want them to use Wikipedia as a source I redouble my effort to show them why Wikipedia is important and how it works. In particular, I make sure they understand how to look at the history of a page and to check out the discussion or […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
While I was driving the kids around on the weekend one of the radio stations announced that there would be the first ever nation wide test of the Emergency Broadcast System. My almost immediate reaction was something like “isn’t Twitter now the Emergency Broadcast system”? I wound up forgetting […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This morning on Techmeme I ran across three interesting and thought provoking pieces about social networks (all from within the last 24 hours it seems): 1. Maciej Ceglowski’s “The Social Graph is Neither” (10 points for great title alone) is a hilarious dissection of what’s wrong with explicitly […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
So far of the building blocks for computer systems we have covered processors and memory. We have seen that processors have become massively faster and that memory has become massively cheaper. Today we will learn about storage and find that it has become massively bigger. Throughout this […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Susan and I saw Margin Call on Saturday night. The movie has a great cast, including Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey and one of my personal favorites, Paul Bettany. My theory is that the more you know about finance, the more you will have trouble enjoying this movie. That’s because Margin Call gets some […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
