A historical collection of our writing.
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Not only is there no gift giving madness but it is great to be reminded that I have much to thankful for. Last year I wrote a post thanking my parents. This year I want to give a big shoutout to Susan. We met completely randomly in a cafe in […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Two previous Homeschool Wednesdays covered the relationship between math and beauty as a different way of motivating the study of math. My first presentation was on spirals and the second one on waves. In each case the main point I am trying to make for our kids is how relatively simple […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The current sequence of Tech Tuesday posts is about the theory of computation. We have already seen that a simple of model of computation such as the Finite State Machine is very useful but has severe limitations in that it cannot even decide a language as simple as all palindromes. We then learned […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In my personal public markets portfolio I am long a number of robotics companies because I see robotics as one of the big secular trends that’s investible. As we are getting more and more robots in different form factors (including drones and even 3D printers), I am curious whether there is a need […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am a bit of a grinch around the holidays as I really don’t like getting more stuff. As a result I am also not all that excited about buying stuff for other people. Thankfully this year there is a terrific solution – gift cards from Skillshare and from Shapeways. With these you can give […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Facebook goes public and its stock declines. Commentators write that investors should have known it was overpriced. Twitter goes public and its stock pops. Commentators write that the company left money on the table. Not nearly enough people though remark on how crazy it is that companies still go […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
