Positional Scarcity and the Virus
So, everything’s gonna be totally different for, I dunno, let’s say a year. And then at some point, the crisis will be over and life will return to a normal… Read more Positional Scarcity and the Virus →
Black Swan Events
So: To be clear, I don’t think we can really call COVID-19 itself a Black Swan event. Plenty of people saw it coming, in some form or another, and said… Read more Black Swan Events →
Antifragility
Seems like a good week, with the Coronavirus pandemic and all, to talk about this: Upon request, I feel like I ought to explain some of these misunderstandings. I already wrote… Read more Antifragility →
Employee Stock Options: free money, kinda
One way to think about employee stock option programs (ESOPs) is that they’re good because they align economic interests between the business and its workers. When the business does well,… Read more Employee Stock Options: free money, kinda →
VCs should play bridge
A lot of VCs play poker, and I get why. But as a metaphor for venture capital, or as a skill-honing extracurricular activity if you want to call it that, I… Read more VCs should play bridge →
Progress, Postmodernism and the Tech Backlash
Here are two aspects of the anti-tech backlash that I believe are both true, and are actually reciprocally related to each other: Critics in media, politics, and even in tech… Read more Progress, Postmodernism and the Tech Backlash →
Can Twitter Save Science?
Before I found my way to the tech world, I was a grad student in the neuroscience department at McGill University. I never took the opportunity to get my PhD,… Read more Can Twitter Save Science? →
Debt is Coming
Ten years from now, what seismic change will we reflect back on and think, “well that was pretty obvious, in retrospect”? Debt is going to finally come to the… Read more Debt is Coming →
