A historical collection of our writing.
Today we are celebrating Labor Day, a day that was originally started by Labor Unions in the early 1880s. At the time it was not a public holiday but rather took the form of a walkout demonstration or general strike. The demands were for shorter hours, safer work and higher pay. It has become easy […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
A while back I did a Tech Tuesday series which I thoroughly enjoyed writing. So I have decided to write a new series. This one will be on uncertainty. I was holding off on starting it as I have work to do on World After Capital but a discussion I had last week with our […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday a debate erupted on Twitter between VCs over whether term sheets should express a company’s valuation in pre-money or post-money terms and whether that even matters. This started with a blog post by Rob Go from Nextview on why post-money valuation term sheets have become more popular. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
At the end of last week Facebook announced that it would stop having humans write summaries of trending news stories. This follows previous allegations that the selection of trending stories had been changed to remove conservative ones. This is a good time to revisit some foundational questions […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Here is my talk from the wonderful GEL conference earlier this year covering some of the ideas from my draft book World After Capital […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I love programming. I also encourage people to learn some programming because (a) it is a useful way of thinking and (b) much of the world will be programmable. Here is a quick example that I just encountered when I prepared yesterday’s Tech Tuesday Index. I had a document with links to every post […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
