A historical collection of our writing.
Seems that roughly every 4 years I consider which laptop to buy and use. In 2008 I switched from a Panasonic CF-W2 to a Macbook Air. At the time I was on my second Panasonic and I had been using each for roughly 4 years. The CF-W2s were lightweight, rugged and chock full of features. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Walter Isaacson from the Aspen Institute (and author of the Steve Jobs biography) recently wrote a post titled “The internet is broken. Starting from scratch, here’s how I’d fix it.” His core contention is that the Internet at present lacks native support for identity, security and payment. And […] Read more
And we are back! Sorry for the, ahem, uncertainty about when Uncertainty Wednesday would appear. I decided to work less this year on vacation and that included not blogging. Today we will wrap up the Zoltar Example. In Part 3, I first introduced the idea that even a very simple explanation in the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
For 2017 I made two New Year’s resolutions. The first is to get into better shape (yes, like just about everyone else judging from the crowd at the gym today). The second is to finish my book World After Capital. For that I will need some help. I am looking for a research assistant who […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Having been fortunate to take two weeks off on a family vacation and stayed away from most news, I feel ready to tackle 2017. Going into this new year I am reminding myself of two principles that apply equally well to startups and to politics. 1. Change produces information. This is something I […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last week I noticed that I had received several cold emails from entrepreneurs that started in exactly the same fashion: So I decided to tweet about it because it appeared as if people had just copied a template. Sure enough the source for this is a blog post titled “How to Cold Email an Investor” […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
