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Sep 30, 2016

The IPO process is pre-Internet and that needs to change ASAP. With the tech IPO window open we are once again being treated to the maddening spectacle of the opening pop in which the first trade price is massively above [...] Read more

Sep 28, 2016

So far in Uncertainty Wednesday we have seen two different limits on observations: the foundational limit that all observation necessarily entails compression of reality and the further compression resulting from the resolution of measurement. Today we will look at measurement [...] Read more

Sep 27, 2016

Today the team at Clarifai is releasing an amazing second version of their API that makes two breakthroughs available to every developer: custom training and fast visual search. The beauty of Clarifai’s API when it first launched was that you [...] Read more

Sep 23, 2016

Yesterday evening, Allen Lau from Wattpad helped me organize a small casual dinner with other entrepreneurs and investors in Toronto. We have three existing investments in Toronto: Wattpad and Figure 1 in the city and Kik in Waterloo. Toronto has [...] Read more

Sep 21, 2016

Today Uncertainty Wednesday continues with limits to observations. Limits to observations are — along with limits to explanations — the key sources of uncertainty that we face. Following the discussion of foundational limits to observations from last week, next up [...] Read more

Sep 19, 2016

The 2016 Presidential race is not a typical election between two candidates based on the merits of their positions on key issues. Instead, it is a stark choice between Hillary Clinton, whose positions you may disagree with, but who is [...] Read more

Sep 18, 2016

Yesterday evening Susan, our older son Michael and I had just returned from dinner at a nearby restaurant when we heard a very loud boom and it felt like the windows and floor briefly shook. My immediate thought was that [...] Read more

Sep 14, 2016

Last Uncertainty Wednesday I laid out the basic framework for understanding uncertainty: we use observations and explanations to have knowledge of reality. The degree of uncertainty we are facing results from the limits to our knowledge. Now I will start [...] Read more

Sep 12, 2016

Susan and I have been supporting ChangeX for a number of years. It is a nonprofit that helps people share and discover ways to improve the communities they live in. Since its launch Dublin based ChangeX has been growing rapidly [...] Read more