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Jan 23, 2017
The other day I was pointed to an essay about how people are overreacting to Trump. That we should all adopt a wait and see attitude instead. In thinking about how to reply it occurred to me that this is [...]
Jan 20, 2017
There is a good thing about today’s inauguration. Despite having the lowest approval rating of an incoming president in a long time, it appears that we will have a peaceful transfer of power. That is what democracy is designed to [...]
Jan 18, 2017
After giving two examples (Zoltar, Coin Flipping), it is now time in Uncertainty Wednesday to formalize the ideas. The following picture will be useful. It shows a very simple reality/system (the blue box) we are trying to understand and the [...]
Jan 17, 2017
Many of the people in power or currently grabbing for it are trying to maintain the recent past or even go back further. This is the fight of our lifetime. The Past against the Future. It is NOT: left against [...]
Jan 12, 2017
Our portfolio company Shippo today announced that it is now providing all customers with access to the United States Postal Service ePostage program. Shippo is the first company to have received such a license from the USPS since 1999. But [...]
Jan 11, 2017
I was going to start formalizing the concepts from Uncertainty Wednesday but I got a reader suggestion to do this in the context of a coin flipping example. This is what pretty much every introductory text uses because, well, coin [...]
Jan 9, 2017
Seems that roughly every 4 years I consider which laptop to buy and use. In 2008 I switched from a Panasonic CF-W2 to a Macbook Air. At the time I was on my second Panasonic and I had been using [...]
Jan 6, 2017
We are excited to announce follow-on funding in our portfolio company Blockstack.
Jan 4, 2017
And we are back! Sorry for the, ahem, uncertainty about when Uncertainty Wednesday would appear. I decided to work less this year on vacation and that included not blogging. Today we will wrap up the Zoltar Example. In Part 3, [...]