It’s time we did a non-pandemic related newsletter issue. So this week we’ll do something more fun. Today we’re going to talk about an interesting journal article that came out… Read more Life is Made of Unfair Coin Flips →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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? →
