A historical collection of our writing.
NOTE: This is the last post for the foundations section from my book World After Capital. In it I propose a catalog of basic human needs. As set out earlier much of today’s confusion around scarcity results from our willful conflagration of needs and wants. The definition of scarcity that I just […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I recently wrote a post about requiring APIs for social and other applications that have more then 1 million users. Now that is an approach to the problem of market power that adds new regulations. There is an alternative that would go the route of removing existing laws which I want to discuss […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Shapeways has printed over 10 million different products. This has allowed Shapeways to hone its printing and logistical capabilities. Along the way, the team has also developed great insights into the needs of creators. We are excited that Shapeways is expanding its service offering accordingly. […] Read more
Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday will be the concluding post in my mini-series on the problem with p-values. We have already seen that it is much easier than expected to reject a null hypothesis if you have incentives to do so. We also saw that the ability to work backwards and generate hypotheses […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
NOTE: I am continuing to publish revised sections from my book World After Capital. Today’s section provides a technological definition of scarcity (instead of an economic one) and provides a brief history of how scarcity has shifted over time from food to land to capital and is now shifting to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday continues our exploration into p-values and why they are problematic. Last Wednesday we saw that if you have incentives to reject a null hypothesis, it takes less work than you would initially think to find data that gets you there. I ended that post suggesting that […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
