A historical collection of our writing.
I have not been writing a lot because I am still digesting much of what the outcome of the US election and Trump’s presidency may bring. One thought that is forming though is that States will play a much bigger role going forward. If federal legislation in healthcare, labor, environment, etc. is […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last Uncertainty Wednesday, I set up the first example which I called Zoltar as a machine that And I asked how to use the Uncertainty Wednesday framework to think about uncertainty here. This requires us to do two things. We have to think about what our observations are (and how those have clear […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In 2011 I gave a talk at conference that The Media Kitchen had organized about the impact of mobile on marketing. While everyone else presenting was talking about how to make mobile ads work, I was openly critical of advertising on mobile platforms altogether arguing that ads were (a) mostly […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
So far Uncertainty Wednesday has been, ahem, somewhat abstract and dry. A challenge for me in writing anything, including World After Capital, is that I like to proceed methodically, which means putting foundations first (note to self: this makes for boring reading and I need to fix that). But now […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have been trying to put my finger on what exactly bothers me quite so much about Trump’s approach to politics. Yes, there are lots of individual elements that people have rightly criticized. But now I have figured out what unifies it all for me: Trump is pushing us collectively into thinking fast […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
So far in Uncertainty Wednesday, I have introduced a framework in which I attribute uncertainty to limits on observations and explanations of reality. That was followed by a series of posts detailing such limits on observations, including fundamental limits, resolution, measurement error, cost and […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
