A historical collection of our writing.
Early next year I will be giving a talk on the challenges and opportunities arising from the current transformation of economy and society by technology and technology enabled globalization. I am rapidly realizing though that I don’t have nearly enough time to chase down all the primary research to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
So earlier this week while in SF, I was trying to get some work done on my way from the city to Sand Hill road. As per usual I turned on tethering on my Android phone and started up my laptop. Within seconds my wifi had connected to the hotspot, I fired up a browser […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
There have been a spate of deadly train derailments including two in the summer (one in Spain and one in Canada) most recently the Metro North one. Human error played a significant role in all of these. For instance, in the New York crash it appears that the driver alert mechanism was not installed […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The biggest challenge of homeschooling is letting go of push and waiting for pull. It is really hard to remain patient when kids are goofing off. The instinct is to push more things at them in the hope that they will pick one of these up and run with them. And it is easy to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last Tech Tuesday, I introduced the halting problem. As you may recall the upshot was that there is no general algorithm that will determine whether a Turing Machine will stop for a particular input. Now you might at first think that this is not a big deal. After all do we really care if a […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
A couple of years ago I wrote about our need for an “opposing view reader” that would intentionally show us commentary from people with opinions different from our own. As far as I can tell relatively little progress has been made on this front. Twitter, for instance, will generally recommend to me […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
