A historical collection of our writing.
When I taught my Skillshare class on Bayesian Probability, I wound up spending a fair bit of time sharing my fascination with the foundations of probability. Why is there uncertainty in the world to begin with? How do we measure it? I have therefore decided to break that material out into its own […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
A few weeks back, Ryan Bubinski, who co-founded Codecademy with Zach Sims, said to me that he thought learning how to code should be a fundamental skill on par with learning how to read or write or do arithmetic. And, that the Internet was the ideal platform to create the largest community learning […] Read more
For many years, I have been a reader of this blog. I’m excited, and humbled, by the opportunity to now be a contributor and to announce here that I have joined Union Square Ventures. In early 2007, when I joined up with John Borthwick and began discussing something that would later be called […] Read more
I attended an interesting lunch yesterday on something called the B Corporation. It is an effort to formally write the idea of triple bottom line businesses into corporate law and provide the standards to go along with that. Today’s common form of organization is the C Corporation which has as its […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Chris Poole, founder of Canvas, “a place to share and play with images” gave an amazing talk the other day, Self-Expression through Social Media, you can see it below:Chris speaks about how identity intersects with the forms and methods of self-expression. He says that, for services that enhance […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
Before we can go on and explore the building blocks in more detail, we need to learn a little bit about the fundamental underlying language used in computers: the binary number system. Based on my kids’ school, this appears to be a 6th grade math topic that’s apparently taught without any context. […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
