A historical collection of our writing.
I was very happy to see President Obama win a second term last night. For starters it was gratifying that despite all sorts of last minute challenges this was not a close vote with hanging chads and damage to the integrity of the democratic process. It was also a compelling repudiation of […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last Tech Tuesday was now two weeks ago due to Hurricane Sandy. As a quick refresher, we looked at where the word algorithm comes from, saw that an algorithm is similar to a recipe and gave an example of a simple algorithm for finding a repeated number in a sequence of numbers. Today we will […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last weekend I wrote a post about what is happening with employment. The gist was that employment in the US in agriculture and manufacturing has collapsed as a percentage of total employment and declined even in absolute terms mostly as a result of increased productivity and globalization. All […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
As previously announced, I have self-published my MIT PhD thesis. Today’s post is about the first paper, which is titled “Information Technology and Firm Size” which – as the rather plain title suggests – examines statistical evidence of the impact of the increased use of IT on firm size. Before […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This post is a bit more thinking out loud than usual but I am grappling with what I perceive to be a big change in the startup landscape. Here are some of its symptoms: the return of TV, print and subway ads for Internet companies; Uber subsidizing their drivers to prop up NY supply; Level […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Regular scheduled programming should return tomorrow. On Monday I posted how the storm surge was the biggest threat to New York City and that’s exactly what happened. There was definitely damage from wind blasts and also several people were killed by falling trees but in terms of knocking down the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
