A historical collection of our writing.
Last Uncertainty Wednesday I laid out the basic framework for understanding uncertainty: we use observations and explanations to have knowledge of reality. The degree of uncertainty we are facing results from the limits to our knowledge. Now I will start to tackle the limits to observations. These […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Susan and I have been supporting ChangeX for a number of years. It is a nonprofit that helps people share and discover ways to improve the communities they live in. Since its launch Dublin based ChangeX has been growing rapidly in Ireland with over 30 programs available that have been implemented […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Three years ago we went as a family to the 9/11 memorial which at the time was still surrounded by a fence. The museum had not yet opened. This year in June, when my mother was visiting from Germany, I went with her to the museum. I did not realize before entering that the museum […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Take a look around you, chances are, pretty much everything you see has been shipped, often multiple times, in order to get there. Transport of goods is a massive industry. Global parcel shipping alone is worth $300 Billion. With the shift to e-commerce parcel shipping is growing rapidly and […] Read more
Today’s blog post is over at USV announcing our investment in Shippo. I have written previously about how the future of programming will consist of composing applications from different APIs. We already have quite a few building blocks in our portfolio with Twilio (communications), Dwolla […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Understanding uncertainty, and even more so explaining it, is hard is because it requires a foundational framework — the reason that most explanations feel isolated is that they avoid this initial step. Today’s Uncertainty Wednesday post is my first cut at presenting the framework, so YMMV. I have […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
