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Feb 13, 2014

If a picture is a thousand words, then a video is a thousand pictures. Our brains seem built for extracting a huge amount of information from the shortest clips (and even animated gifs). Prior to smartphones capturing video was sort ... Read more

Feb 12, 2014

In March we will be going to Africa for a safari. We are all really excited about it. And of course as part of homeschooling we have been spending time preparing for the trip and learning about the countries we ... Read more

Feb 11, 2014

Sorry, no Tech Tuesday today – instead a brief post about need for more dramatic NSA reform than what has been proposed so far. It is already 4:30pm but I still suggest that you call your representative or senator in ... Read more

Feb 10, 2014

Susan and I are trying something new: we are offering an online pitch practice aimed at women entrepreneurs. Susan came up with this idea based on working hard to hone her own pitch for Ziggeo (which is also the platform ... Read more

Feb 6, 2014

I have written a fair bit about inflation in the past, starting with a post about inflation versus deflation during the financial crises in 2008, which I then followed with three posts in 2009. We are now finding ourselves in ... Read more

Feb 5, 2014

One crucial impact of homeschooling is that you spend way more time with your children (even when you use quite a few tutors as we do). This will test your relationship with your children in new and unexpected ways and ... Read more

Feb 4, 2014

The last few Tech Tuesdays have all been about computational complexity. One of the problems that we looked at a couple of times was finding a match (eg a word on a page). And for good reason as matching is ... Read more

Feb 3, 2014

If you are a long time reader of Continuations, you will know that I wrote repeatedly about ACTA, the attempt to strengthen global intellectual property rights that was soundly defeated by the European Parliament. At the time I mentioned that ... Read more

Jan 31, 2014

Earlier this week I was talking to a group of investment bankers about the process of going public. In particular I was drilling in on the much vaunted need for revenue visibility as a basis for giving quarterly guidance. Every ... Read more