## Aug 27, 2013

Today’s Tech Tuesday is a relatively short note on the “Bleeding Edge” – technologies that are even beyond the cutting edge. Every technology tends to start life at the bleeding edge with early releases that are unstable and poorly tested, [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/59482099164/tech-tuesday-beware-the-bleeding-edge)

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

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## Aug 26, 2013

We went to see Jobs on Saturday night with our older son who is interested in being an entrepreneur. I had heard that the reviews had been largely bad and didn’t have high expectations going in. I left the movie [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/59386980209/jobs-movie-review)

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

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## Aug 22, 2013

So the sentence for Chelsea Manning is 35 years. The intention of government here is obvious: like everything else in the ridiculously harsh treatment of Manning it is an attempt to deter others from leaking information. So is the detention [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/59020220923/government-undermining-the-foundations-of)

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

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## Aug 21, 2013

Time for Homeschool Wednesday! On of the biggest goals for homeschooling that I can think of is to instill a desire for lifelong learning and to provide the tools to achieve that. As I am beginning to understand from reading [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/58910754066/homeschool-wednesday-lifelong-learning)

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

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## Aug 20, 2013

I already hinted at this topic in my last Tech Tuesday, when I wrote about having a healthy mix of young and more experienced engineers. More generally, diversity in engineering teams (and teams more generally) tends to be a healthy [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/58790987257/tech-tuesday-team-diversity)

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

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## Aug 19, 2013

We live Chelsea, which is a mostly residential neighborhood in Manhattan and theoretically one of the world’s leading cities. Yet I have a choice of exactly one true broadband provider: Time Warner Cable. Verizon at my address offers DSL only, [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/58693763906/not-so-broad-band-we-need-a-utility-model)

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

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## Aug 13, 2013

I have written before on Tech Tuesday on how to grow engineering teams but wanted to tackle this issue again from a slightly different perspective: what is the role of experience? Startup engineering teams often start out skewing very young [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/58143807411/tech-tuesday-the-role-of-experience)

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

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## Aug 9, 2013

Short post because I am away with the family, but I can’t help myself given the shutdowns of Lavabit and Silent Mail. This is what I mean when I say we are headed for a spy-versus-spy society between citizens and [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/57800652199/to-fix-surveillance-fix-government)

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

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## Aug 8, 2013

It’s been a while since I have written a post in my Scylla and Charybdis series. As a quick refresher, the basic premise of the series is that startups are hard because on pretty much anything you can do too [Read more](https://continuations.com/post/57702026996/listening-too-much-too-little)