A historical collection of our writing.
I have been trying to put my finger on what exactly bothers me quite so much about Trump’s approach to politics. Yes, there are lots of individual elements that people have rightly criticized. But now I have figured out what unifies it all for me: Trump is pushing us collectively into thinking fast […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
So far in Uncertainty Wednesday, I have introduced a framework in which I attribute uncertainty to limits on observations and explanations of reality. That was followed by a series of posts detailing such limits on observations, including fundamental limits, resolution, measurement error, cost and […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have lots of thoughts about the outcome of the US election but have been letting them ruminate to avoid contributing to the cacophony of hot takes. Here is a first bit that I feel strongly about as it ties into topics that I have covered repeatedly here on Continuations. I have been writing about […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Uncertainty Wednesday will return next, well, Wednesday. In the meantime there will be a lot of uncertainty. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am writing this from Web Summit in Lisbon where I have just spent the morning meeting with some terrific startups. One question that was on a lot of people’s minds was what the election of Trump as the US President will mean. I think the right answer is: nobody knows and nobody will know […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
There is a lot of excitement among startups and other companies about building for Amazon’s and Google’s voice platforms. My reaction to this can be summed up as follows: Google and Amazon will have a perfect copy of every enduser interaction. So anything that takes off they can wrap into the core […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
