A historical collection of our writing.
Do you have a passion for creating technology to better connect teachers with each other and their students? Then you should consider working at Edmodo. The company, which is based in San Mateo, provides a free and safe social network for K12 education. Since we invested last year, Edmodo has grown […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Welcome to Tech Tuesdays! This is the first installment and as I had promised I am not assuming any prior knowledge other than as an enduser of computers. Instead we are starting with the absolute basics. Every computing system has to provide in some way for five different building blocks. Today’s […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Tomorrow I will be attending an “Innovation Summit” hosted by the Darden School of Business. I just finished reading Peter Thiel’s “The End of the Future” in the National Review. Thiel’s argument is that underlying our economic difficulties is a more profound problem: a dramatic slow-down in […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
It feels a bit strange now that I wrote a post yesterday morning about “Apple’s Glory Years,” not realizing that in the evening I would see the news that Steve Jobs had passed away. There have been many excellent tributes and I read a lot of them last night (collected here on delicious) with one […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred’s MBA Mondays series has been really terrific and has inspired me to start a Tech Tuesdays series, which will launch next Tuesday. The subtitle for Tech Tuesdays could be: Everything you always wanted to know about computers but were afraid to ask. The series will essentially assume no prior […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have tried out quite a few social news readers and they all suffer from pretty much the same flaw: they give me more of the same. I will already have seen most of the stories that they present in either Twitter or Tumblr or Techmeme. What I really need is a reader that gives […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
