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

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Dec 4, 2014

I did not write directly about the death of Michael Brown although what happened in Ferguson was on my mind and I referred to it indirectly. I was not planning to write about the death of Eric Garner but then [...] [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/104335467520/the-new-york-verdict-and-what-i-plan-to-do)

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

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Dec 2, 2014

If like me you prefer Giving Tuesday over Black Friday and Cyber Monday then it might be a good time to give some money to ChangeX. Susan and I will continue to match any funds 1:1 until $25,000 is reached. [...] [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/104174475020/giving-tuesday-changex)

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

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Nov 28, 2014

About a year and a half ago I wrote a post arguing that there is no free will and also stating that seemed OK to me. As it turns out since then I have been on a fun intellectual and [...] [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/103840615180/free-will-revisited)

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

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Nov 26, 2014

A good friend of mine recently conducted a fun survey – he asked people why they thought digital was disruptive (I don’t know if he will ever publish the results as this was an internal project at a consulting company). [...] [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/103648828200/abundance-why-digital-is-disruptive)

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

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Nov 25, 2014

I believe in progress. I am optimistic about the longrun. But if we want to get to a better future we have to start by acknowledging how much we still let our emotions control our behavior. It is all around [...] [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/103556361165/starting-with-ourselves)

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

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Nov 24, 2014

I took last week off from blogging for family reasons which means I sat out a big wave of posts about Uber. Don’t worry, I am not going to rehash that particular discussion. Instead, I want to point out what [...] [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/103463360605/why-values-matter-in-on-demand-transportation)

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

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Nov 13, 2014

Yesterday we landed a probe on a comet. I am saying we because this is a major accomplishment for humanity. For reference, powered heavier-than-air flight was invented only a tad more than one hundred years ago. It is important to [...] [Read more](http://continuations.com/post/102531178060/landing-on-a-comet-the-power-of-knowledge)

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

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Nov 12, 2014

In discussing bitcoin we have always emphasized that payment is only one potential application of blockchain technology. The decentralized public ledger is a new protocol that enables a fundamentally new class of systems: logically centralized but with decentralized control. What does that [...] [Read more](/content/writing/2014/11/onename/index.html)

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

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Nov 11, 2014

Yesterday President Obama came out strongly in support of the admittedly awfully named principle of net neutrality. I wish he had done so sooner but will take it now. This is an absolutely critical principle to maintain in order to [...] [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/102384825345/from-net-neutrality-to-access-liberty-lets-build)