A historical collection of our writing.
I am about to start a new series (on uncertainty) and so I decided it would be fun to go back and index all the old Tech Tuesday posts. Here is is (also available as a Google Document): Computing’s Building Blocks (Overview) Of Bits and Bytes (Binary Number System) A First Look at the Central […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
We have a couple of split air conditioners. One of them is reasonably old (1987 model) and when we bought the place it came without a remote. We will eventually have to redo the roof and will replace all ACs with more modern and hopefully higher efficiency models. Until then, however, I was hoping […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have written and talked about the need for a “right to be represented by a bot.” By a bot here I mean software that runs on my behalf as an enduser and mediates my interactions with online services. In the web world, the browser is such as bot. For instance, I can run an […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I recently ordered and received a developer edition of Microsoft’s Hololens. This is me looking goofy wearing it at the USV office: TL;DR: the Hololens is a well executed preview of an amazing augmented reality future. Compared to the Vive and Oculus (VR, I know the difference) the Hololens ships […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
And now for something different: just some pragmatic advice. You should run all hands meetings in your company. They are a key bonding and communication opportunity. You can have them until you are quite large – for instance, Twilio, which as gone public, still does them. Here is the key though: […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have written repeatedly about why I don’t think “encrypt all things” is the right answer for constructing a democratic society going forward. I am, however, a fan of the idea to “sign all things.” What I mean by this is that ideally all my emails, blog posts, etc. would be automatically digitally […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
