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The First Thing That Breaks 24 Jun 2013 | 12:51 am
One distinguishing factor between inexperienced and senior software developers is their ability to answer the following question about an application they’ve built: “As usage increases, what’s the fi...
Spain Has a Tenured Faculty Problem 29 Apr 2013 | 05:23 am
By this point we all know things are bad in PIGS. But how bad, and why? Matthew O’Brien at The Atlantic included a simple graph in his argument that Spain is Beyond Doomed, charting the growth the lon...
A Few Notes on Learning Rails 29 Jan 2013 | 03:10 am
In the spirit of eating your own dog food, I took General Assembly’s Intro to Rails this past fall. The whole process of learning Rails by trying out pretty much every online tool available led me to ...
Your Product Chooses Your Community, Marketing Scales It 12 Aug 2012 | 11:35 pm
Great businesses are known and grown by the communities that use their products. Apple’s brand was reinforced by the hip designers and musicians that used it through the company’s worst days. Facebook...
Rent-Seeking Assets 11 Jul 2012 | 03:18 am
If you haven’t read Slate’s article on the economics of New York’s taxi medallion system, it’s worth the time. The tl;dr version is that the city government of New York has created an artificial set o...
Accuracy and Precision 14 May 2012 | 08:38 am
In conversation, the terms accuracy and precision are used interchangeably. But they mean different things, and the difference can play a big role in the growth of a business. Before getting into earl...
Subcultures 28 Nov 2011 | 02:22 pm
One of my favorite essays of all time is accomplished game designer Greg Costikyan’s account of attending the pay-to-pitch New England Venture Summit as a first-time entrepreneur raising money. Coming...
Occupy Wall Street is about student debt 10 Oct 2011 | 10:02 am
Up to this point I hadn’t thought much about the macro reasons behind Occupy Wall Street, assuming it was driven by a general disaffection with economic inequality. But when I checked out We Are the 9...
What we don’t know 29 Aug 2011 | 04:54 am
[T]here are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns –...
The Path 15 Aug 2011 | 07:39 am
There are a lot of philosophical divisions among entrepreneurs: bootstrappers versus fundraisers, platforms versus content, lean versus fat, et cetera. But one has struck me as particularly underappre...
