# Albert Wenger --- ## Jul 4, 2017 I am spending this 4th of July in Germany, having visited my parents and friends from growing-up near Nuremberg for the last few days. It is late here now and I am seeing all the Happy 4th wishes from the [continuations](https://continuations.com/post/162606659360/happy-4th-of-july-celebrating-truths) --- ## Jun 30, 2017 Susan and I have been longtime supporters of the wonderful ChangeX platform: ChangeX helps spread social innovation across communities. This week ChangeX introduced a new model for donors, which they are calling Impact as a Service (IaaS). This is a [continuations](https://continuations.com/post/162435266040/changex-impact-as-a-service) --- ## Jun 28, 2017 In today’s Uncertainty Wednesday we start to explore the properties of random variables. The first one we will look at is the so-called “expected value” or EV for short. The EV is simply the probability weighted average of a random [continuations](https://continuations.com/post/162373873320/uncertainty-wednesday-expected-value) --- ## Jun 26, 2017 I love reading science fiction for two reasons: first, because of what I learn about the possible future and second, because of what it says about the present. For instance, I read a lot of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling [continuations](https://continuations.com/post/162277249150/scifi-book-recommendations-seveneves-and-three) --- ## Jun 24, 2017 There are a lot of outright lies (at worst) / profound misunderstandings (at best) on all sides circulating around health insurance at the moment. Today’s post is about the most fundamental one: the relationship between health insurance and redistribution and [continuations](https://continuations.com/post/162203275665/health-insurance-and-the-r-word-redistribution) --- ## Jun 21, 2017 Just a quick reminder on where we currently are in Uncertainty Wednesdays: I had introduced the idea of measuring uncertainty, then we defined what a probability distribution is and learned about entropy, which is a measure of uncertainty that is [continuations](https://continuations.com/post/162082453895/uncertainty-wednesday-random-variables) --- ## Jun 20, 2017 Nearly 10 years ago, I wrote a post titled "I Want a New Platform" which led to our investment in MongoDB. At the time the company was called 10gen and had developed a Platform as a Service: a Javascript application [continuations](https://continuations.com/post/162065099345/mongodb-stitch-a-fresh-take-on-backend-as-a) --- ## Jun 17, 2017 One of the important topics that I have not yet addressed in World After Capital is the role of the Nation State. So I am gathering up some of my thoughts in a post first. I believe it is critical [continuations](https://continuations.com/post/161938064520/getting-past-the-dominance-of-the-nation-state) --- ## Jun 14, 2017 The last two Uncertainty Wednesdays we have looked at entropy as a measure of uncertainty. Today I want to tie that back to the original communications context in which Shannon introduced it. We can use our really simple model of [continuations](https://continuations.com/post/161817540085/uncertainty-wednesday-entropy-and-communication)