A historical collection of our writing.
Many of the people in power or currently grabbing for it are trying to maintain the recent past or even go back further. This is the fight of our lifetime. The Past against the Future. It is NOT: left against right, rich against poor, black against white, Islam against Christianity, men against […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Our portfolio company Shippo today announced that it is now providing all customers with access to the United States Postal Service ePostage program. Shippo is the first company to have received such a license from the USPS since 1999. But best of all, the benefits of this license go to Shippo’s […] Read more
I was going to start formalizing the concepts from Uncertainty Wednesday but I got a reader suggestion to do this in the context of a coin flipping example. This is what pretty much every introductory text uses because, well, coin flips are actually used in practice to decide things (especially in […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel, Snow Crash, we were introduced to the concept of a Metaverse, the 3d mixed reality heir to the Internet marked by a convergence of the physical and virtual worlds. Technologists have been trying to bring this topic out of the realm of science fiction and geeks in […] Read more
Seems that roughly every 4 years I consider which laptop to buy and use. In 2008 I switched from a Panasonic CF-W2 to a Macbook Air. At the time I was on my second Panasonic and I had been using each for roughly 4 years. The CF-W2s were lightweight, rugged and chock full of features. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Walter Isaacson from the Aspen Institute (and author of the Steve Jobs biography) recently wrote a post titled “The internet is broken. Starting from scratch, here’s how I’d fix it.” His core contention is that the Internet at present lacks native support for identity, security and payment. And […] Read more
