A wrote blog post over on Medium musing on Predictions .
Quantopian has a big announcement today. The company will manage up to $250 million of investment capital, provided by Steve Cohen . The investment capital will be allocated to members of Qua...
We live in a weird new era where I nearly always have full control of what information I share and whom I share it with (assuming I have an indefatigable interest in navigating permissions settin...
The Unbiased Algorithm is a Myth : I published another longer read over on Medium. Syndicating here for Tumblr followers and email subscribers. Related lazy-web request: does anyone know...
Corporate Governance: Dictatorships VS Democracy — Medium : I wrote a post over on Medium. It will be my new full time place for long form writing. I’ll probably continue to post more Tumbl...
I’ve restrained my commentary on the Apple/FBI encryption debate to tweets so far, but I couldn’t find a way to say this in 140 characters, so blog post it is. Digital communication is runn...
Nick Moran keeps a great podcast about VC and startups called Full Ratchet (the name is in reference to a particularly thorny term in venture deals… I hope you never need to face it). He inte...
This chart from fivethirtyeight shows a histogram of movie reviews from 5 different sources. The reason they made this chart is to show that aggregated reviews on Fandango are skewed too high and...
Yesterday I wrote a post showing how companies’ mobile-optimized websites are generally better than their desktop websites when viewed from a desktop browser. It’s a somewhat dramatic co...
When cruising through my Twitter feed on my desktop, I click on links that sometimes drop me on mobile-optimized pages. They are so much better designed than their desktop counterparts. These cli...
Steven Johnson has an excellent long read coming up this weekend in the NYT Magazine . It’s available online now. Its title says exactly what it’s about: The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn...
Jonathan Libov of USV and Angela Tran Kingyens of Version One Ventures are collaborating on a mini-series of long reads that they are calling On Digital Healthcare . They released Part 1 tod...
Nearly all successful modern companies employ some variation of a build-measure-learn feedback cycle. It’s a cycle that iterates as follows: you take an initial position on what your product ...
About 6 months ago I read Permutation City by Greg Egan. When I put it down, I was glad to be done with it. It wasn’t a gripping read, so despite being relatively moderate length (350 smal...
The blog post I wrote earlier this week talking about Sequoia’s investment pacing back around the nuclear winter got far more distribution than I initially expected. It made me curious to lo...
Brian Chesky, CEO and Co-Founder at AirBnB, recently published 7 rejection letters he received from valley VCs in an effort to raise $150k for a 10% stake in AirBnB during mid-to-late 2008. My...
Yesterday I finished Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves . It is a great read, well suited for summer. The plot is simple enough to explain spoiler-free: The moon blows up for an unexplained reas...
My friend John Gannon , Co-Founder and CEO of HireNurture, wrote a book that recently launched called Finding Startup Jobs . John asked me to write the forward for the book, and after reading a...
This a computer the size of a grain of rice.
I find it so curious the ways in which the technology we own controls us against our desires, by design. If you buy a new computer and you want to put music from your iPhone into your new iTun...