## Jan 31, 2013

On the good news front, I ended a long week of business travel in Europe with some spectacular skiing with friends in Verbier. On the bad news front, the rental randonnée boots I used resulted in a rather aggravated Achilles [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/41946068451/achilles-tendon-help-needed)

## Jan 29, 2013

Last Tech Tuesday, I introduced the problem of concurrency: multiple programs executing at the same time. I used an example of a naive program for updating a vote count that could lose votes if multiple instances run concurrently. So how [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/41809927198/tech-tuesday-concurrency-atomic-actions)

## Jan 28, 2013

I am still in Europe now for a few days of skiing with some friends. Since I am also trying to get some work done at the same time, posts will continue to be super short. Today’s post is simply [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/41731558081/work-versus-capital)

## Jan 25, 2013

At a dinner at DLD we were discussing the issue of libel and I was surprised to find one participant defending the UK law that allows Lord McAlpine to sue individuals who (re)tweeted an allegation against him. Apparently the amounts [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/41461524147/libel-slander-defamation-and-the-internet)

## Jan 24, 2013

First time entrepreneurs often ask me what they should do to maximize their chances of raising venture capital. To which I invariably answer: “Not need it.” Why? Because raising capital or selling your company is all about having a credible [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/41358671178/want-a-good-deal-have-a-credible-alternative)

## Jan 23, 2013

When I first heard about SnapChat I was immediately reminded of the attempts of a friend of mine to establish a DRM’d email platform that would let recipients read an email but not do anything else with it that hadn’t [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/41310859978/privacy-and-drm-the-snapchat-case)

## Jan 22, 2013

Sorry, no Tech Tuesday today (due to my travel schedule). Quite fortunately that creates an opening for a brief post about Dwolla, Iowa and the Midwest more generally. I spent my first year in the US as an exchange student [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/41226448778/dwolla-and-iowa-i-love-the-midwest)

## Jan 21, 2013

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## Jan 18, 2013

Bijan has a good post up today with “Some Thoughts on the Future of Search.” This is a topic on my mind following Facebook’s announcement of Graph Search and my upcoming appearance on Monday at DLD on a panel titled [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/40860526945/future-of-search-seeking-input)