### Jan 29, 2018

NOTE: One of my goals for 2018 is to bring my book World After Capital to the point where I feel it is good enough to publish in paper form. I have come to realize that if I just keep [...]
[Read more](https://continuations.com/post/170263714510/world-after-capital-work-in-progress-preface)

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[Albert Wenger](/content/people/albert-wenger/index.html)

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### Jan 26, 2018

Late in 2016 I wrote a blog post titled “Voice Platforms: Open Alternative is an Opportunity.” At the time I learned about a project called Mycroft. This project has just launched its second version, the Mark II, on Kickstarter. If [...]
[Read more](https://continuations.com/post/170148723715/mycroft-open-consumer-voice-platform)

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[Albert Wenger](/content/people/albert-wenger/index.html)

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### Jan 24, 2018

Last Uncertainty Wednesday, I used meteorite impact data to make the point that sample variance may be much smaller than actual variance. Following the post, I was asked a great question on Twitter: “Is there such thing as estimation error [...]
[Read more](https://continuations.com/post/170074051490/uncertainty-wednesday-sample-variance-contd)

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[Albert Wenger](/content/people/albert-wenger/index.html)

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### Jan 22, 2018

It appears that some people genetically need only 4 hours of sleep per night. Well, I am not one of them. I also don’t seem to be needing less sleep as I am getting older. Instead, I have come to [...]
[Read more](https://continuations.com/post/170001449755/the-importance-of-sleep)

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[Albert Wenger](/content/people/albert-wenger/index.html)

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### Jan 15, 2018

We have the USV office closed today in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day. In his book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community” he wrote: I strongly recommend reading a longer excerpt from the book, which [...]
[Read more](https://continuations.com/post/169735277655/martin-luther-king-jr-supported-basic-income)

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[Albert Wenger](/content/people/albert-wenger/index.html)

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### Jan 12, 2018

It happened on the second to last day of a wonderful family trip to Southeast Asia. I looked at my mobile phone in the morning and it had an alert that said something like “SIM not recognized.” I should have [...]
[Read more](https://continuations.com/post/169624609325/a-sim-switch-account-takeover-mine)

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[Albert Wenger](/content/people/albert-wenger/index.html)

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### Jan 4, 2018

So I am still away on family vacation and following a self-imposed online diet, but even then it has been impossible to ignore the monster sized vulnerabilities disclosed today known as Meltdown and Spectre. And just to make sure nobody [...]
[Read more](https://continuations.com/post/169299842665/meltdown-and-spectre-are-good-for-innovation)

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[Albert Wenger](/content/people/albert-wenger/index.html)

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### Dec 22, 2017

As 2017 draws to a close I will be taking a break from blogging, twitter and (for the most part) email until well into January. I have a great set of book recommendations – far too many to get through [...]
[Read more](https://continuations.com/post/168831159575/blogging-twitter-and-email-break)

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[Albert Wenger](/content/people/albert-wenger/index.html)

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### Dec 18, 2017

We are about to go away on a three week trip. Long trips have been a wonderful aspect of homeschooling our children. We are fortunate to have the means to show them different parts of the world and this year [...]
[Read more](https://continuations.com/post/168676194375/looking-for-book-recommendations)