A historical collection of our writing.
I have sadly reached a point, where two things are happening with email despite my best efforts. First, I often write very short answers to emails. These answers could easily be perceived as rude even though that is not the intention. I remember that in the past it used to bug me a bit getting […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
There are two bad habits in car drivers that I find quite annoying: not pulling into the intersection and not signaling turns. The two in combination can dramatically reduce the throughput of an intersection. Unfortunately, one of those intersections is between our house and the train station. Most […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Early in 2009 we organized a one-day event in New York which we called “Hacking Education” — the idea was to bring together people from different fields for a discussion on how to disrupt and improve education using technology in general and the web in particular. The spirited and inspiring […] Read more
There is so much going on with Wikileaks that it’s hard to know where to start. Here are some of the questions that I am thinking about:Will the cable leaks make diplomacy harder or easier? Is the answer different for the long-term versus the short-term? A foundational question for this is: what is […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The team at 10gen has done an amazing job building and supporting MongoDB, a NoSQL database that supports both agile development and performance/scaling. This combination is particularly well suited to web development where frequent or continuous deployment are becoming the norm and sites can grow […] Read more
Yesterday’s post about the Google-Groupon deal generated a lot of views and comments and two important lessons. First, on a “meta” level there was a lesson about blogging. While I had known this to some degree before, for stimulating dialog it is far better to write about a current topic and take a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
