A historical collection of our writing.
NOTE: I am continuing to publish revised sections from my book World After Capital. Today’s section contains a central idea of the book, which is that the existence of knowledge provides an objective basis for humanism and establishes critical inquiry as its central value. Humanism What then are […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Earlier this week Rebecca posted the latest evolution of the USV thesis. It includes the words “trusted brands” which led some people to ask how an early stage company could already be that. I provided the answer in a tweet in which I wrote that I want to explain that further today and put it […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last Uncertainty Wednesday, I introduced the concept of p-values. We looked at the example of a null hypothesis (explanation) that a coin is fair, observing heads (H) or tails (T) six times in a row and rejecting that the coin is fair because the probability of that happening with a fair coin is […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
NOTE: I am continuing to publish revised sections from my book World After Capital here. These sections on Regulation and Self-Regulation follow the one on Optimism to make clear my belief that technology will not automatically makes things better but that we have to work at that. There are many […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
When #DeleteUber was a trending hashtag it was relatively easy for people to take action in those cities where Lyft, MyTaxi or some other service was available. Even if you didn’t delete the Uber app outright, you could move it a screen back or so and default to another provider. Such is the power […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
As promised for some time, today in Uncertainty Wednesday, I will talk about p-values and what makes them so problematic. We will once again look at a super simple example by going back to considering a coin flip. As before we will consider the highest uncertainty explanation which is that the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
