A historical collection of our writing.
I just spent a couple of days in Vienna, Austria at a conference. The upcoming Austrian elections were the talk of the town. One of the major parties is campaigning in part on the promise of introducing an estate tax for all estates about 1 million Euros. Austria has a wealth distribution that is […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last Uncertainty Wednesday I introduced a definition of climate as the probability distribution over weather states. That post ended with a question about how historically observed statistics relate to this distribution. I am in Vienna Austria for a conference and the temperature yesterday got up […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
By now most CEOs of startups understand that they urgently need to figure out what role machine learning will play in their business. Large established companies too are actively engaged in this process. This is not an easy task in and of itself, as machine learning isn’t a panacea for everything […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Some companies with currently centralized services have been criticized for issuing tokens and raising money in ICOs. There are even allegations that venture investors are pushing companies to do so as a ploy for liquidity. I suspect that some situations like that do actually exist, but I know from […] Read more
My book World After Capital has been an ongoing project for a couple of years now. I am excited that as of this weekend I feel it includes all the ideas I want in there. Some of them, such as strategies for overcoming the dominance of nation states, are so far in a protozoic stage, […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
So far in Uncertainty Wednesday we have mostly built up concepts and ideas, with only one extended example. Given the two massive hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the weather received a lot of attention, including the question to what extent the occurrence and/or severity of these storms lets us draw […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
