A historical collection of our writing.
I’m supposed to be in Europe this week to speak at a conference and attend another one, but I decided to stay home, to be safe. I am hearing all sorts of stories of events being called off and flights being canceled. It’s estimated that the airline industry’s 2020 revenues could go down by 40%, […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Sometimes things can get overwhelming. Tasks can seem too big to even begin. This, of course, is not true. Every journey begins with a single step, etc. My wife recently pointed me to this great passage by Anne Lamott which puts it yet another way: “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Last week I wrote about the inherent tension between data portability and privacy , and suggested that one solution would be an exportable “privacy context” that could travel with ported data. Such an approach, however, would require a notion of identity that is broader than a single account at a […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Earlier this week, I spoke at a Justice Department / Stanford conference about antitrust issues in the tech sector . Our panel included Patricia Nakache from Trinity Ventures, Ben Thompson from Stratechery and Mark Lemley from Stanford. If you are interested you can watch the whole thing here: […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Last week, the Blockstack team formally rolled out their proposal for a new mining mechanism for the Stacks blockchain called Proof of Transfer (PoX) . In addition to the blog post, you can read the full PoX white paper and the Stacks Improvement Proposal (SIP-007 ) that details the idea. PoX is a […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
Last year around this time, I had a major medical scare which shook me pretty hard. The details don’t matter, but the takeaway was that afterwards I felt lucky to have not had a more serious problem, despite a bad situation that was totally avoidable. I dodged a bullet. It was a wake-up call. Last […] Read more (opens Nick Grossman in a new tab)
