A historical collection of our writing.
When I first met Susan in a cafe in Paris 20 years ago, one of the very first things I told her was that I had a list of all the things I was going to see in Paris during my vacation there. According to Susan, my super geeky line in asking her to join […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The Internet has been an amazing platform for creating and distributing educational content. Khan Academy has become the canonical example cited here but terrific free content is emerging from many different sources such as the Open Courseware initiative and even Youtube. Free content was a major […] Read more
Excited to announce our investment in Skillshare today. You can read some other posts about it here: Michael and Malcolm from Skillshare, Fred, and Jenna Wortham in the New York Times. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Google buying Motorola is a strong defensive move against both Microsoft and Apple on two fronts: patents and user experience. Apple is vertically integrated and Microsoft controls Nokia (without having had to buy it). Between that and having filed or acquired a lot of patents, these two pose […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred’s blog post today is about how new and powerful HTML5 apps are emerging, giving the new Kindle Cloud Reader as an example. The Cloud Reader is also an example of something else: if you tax a system too much people will find ways to work around it. This is highly relevant to anyone running […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
What happened in yesterday’s market underlines the deep bind we now find ourselves in. We have politically precluded new revenues and have shifted our attention to deficit reduction at a time when we would need to invest. We have already had two rounds of quantitative easing and interest rates are […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
