A historical collection of our writing.
I still have quite a few great topics suggested by readers to work off for my Tech Tuesday series on technology in startups. But today I want to take on a different issue because it has been on my mind. I have now been programming computers in one way or another for over thirty years […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Today was Memorial Day, which as I wrote previously seems to mean beginning of summer to most (including our family). We are fortunate that way as we have lived our lives far removed from any wars including the ones that the US military has been actively fighting in the last decades. It is […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
At the height of the re-engineering craze there was one fantastic HBR article titled “Re-engineering Work: Don’t Automate, Obliterate.” In light of the changes in the labor market the choice of “obliterate” may now seem unfortunate, but the basic point of the article was spot on: don’t implement […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am an immigrant (from Germany). I work in tech (as an investor and previously as an entrepreneur). I support comprehensive immigration reform. That part is pretty simple – it would be hypocritical to argue that something that I have benefitted from tremendously should be less accessible to […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Ok, so this isn’t so much a review as an exhortation to read Antifragile by Nassim Taleb which I consider one of the most important non-fiction books I have read. Let me start with some disclaimers: 1. I don’t read a lot of non-fiction books, not because I don’t start them but because I don’t […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last week in Tech Tuesday I asked for topics to write about in my series on technology in startups. There seemed to be a fair bit of interest in security, so here we go. First off a disclaimer. As with any general purpose advice, you need to think a lot about what it is you […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
