A historical collection of our writing.
The Internet is a most amazing thing that we are unfortunately taking for granted. At its core it is about connecting all of humanity with each other. With it we, the people, have the power to dramatically reduce the cost and expand the reach of education. To conduct research outside of the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In 1994 I was a student in Thomas Piketty’s first theory class at MIT. He was a young hotshot professor and I was a not so young student (in fact about 4 years older than Piketty). I still vividly remember the horror that was the first exam in this class. Piketty had vastly overestimated how […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am co-hosting an event on May 14 at the BuzzFeed offices with folks from Represent.us / United Republic and others backing the American Anti-corruption Act. We will be discussing the rationale behind the Act and how the campaign plans to pass it via ballot initiative in cities, counties, states, […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am excited about Foursquare’s upcoming releases of two apps to unbundle social features from discovery features. You can read a detailed story about it over on the Verge reported by Ben Popper. Ben covers a lot of different angles. What’s worth emphasizing is how much courage it takes for a team […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This will be the topic for my talk at DLD New York this coming Thursday. Here is the rough outline. If anyone has data to contribute I would much appreciate it since I am admittedly long on anecdotes and short on statistics. 1. Disappearance of growth. Here I will talk about how GDP is increasingly […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am still not finished reading “Capital in the 21st Century” but the following introduction to Chapter 11 really got me thinking: One of my main intuitions about the coming changes is that “information” will become more important than industrial, financial and real estate assets. Or put […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
