A historical collection of our writing.
Tomorrow is a big election as potentially control of both houses is on the line. But why vote? There is something known as the “paradox of voting,” which questions why a rational voter would bother voting at all. The reasoning is that any particular voter is incredibly unlikely to influence the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
This is part of my series of posts thinking about a coming age of abundance. The main thrust of my arguments will be that abundance will be a feature of the physical world, but I would be the first to admit that we are a long way off from that. In the meantime though, we […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
With so much infrastructure to build on, we are seeing smaller and smaller teams achieve amazing things. The combination of someone with a great product sense and one or two exceptional engineers can build and launch a new product or service. Many startups prove this every day. And the various […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have long operated an open and unsecured wifi access point at home. Why? For anything that really requires security, such as online banking, I am relying on end-to-end encryption via SSL. That requires being somewhat diligent to make sure your browser actually shows it has a secure connection […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Last week I wrote that content owners’ decision to block access to TV content they had made available on the web based on recognizing which browser it was (in particular identifying and blocking Google TV) was a threat to net neutrality. Scott Rafer objected that I was doing net neutrality (and my […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
By at least one metric of the health and growth of the NY startup community things could hardly be going better: the quality and quantity of events. This week alone there seems to be at least one event every day that I would love to go and that was before I started looking at Charlie […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
