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Around the time of the Great Depression, a man named John Maynard Keynes made an incredible discovery. The reason so many people were out of work was not really because of irresponsible banks or high taxes or reckless government policy. It was really much simpler than all that: there wasn’t enough money.
A guide to shared finances after marriage
Finding work as a software person kind of sucks sometimes. Actually, let me strike the "kind of" from that sentence. …
I would rather give away my favorite ideas than to let them go to waste. Please do something with them.
5G is overkill for phones but that's okay because for carriers it is really about destroying broadcast and cable TV, ISPs, and telephone companies. One network to rule them all.
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Meta's Threads.net sure looks a lot like App.net. Is Meta due for a pivot? The legislation the company supports suggests yes.
A few years ago, my work sent me on a training course. It involved the usual things, trust exercises, team bonding, and personality profiles. I filled in a few forms, answered some questions, and the very professional looking lady marked up my paper and said, "I see that you're a Scorpio. That means you're focused…
Many internet companies use A/B testing to evaluate the performance of website changes they want to make. A typical metric in such scenarios is the conversion rate (CVR) of a user, i.e. the probability that a user converts (e.g. makes a purchase) on the website. A typical A/B test setup in such a situation would…
January 16, 2022 Latest Article: The Importance of Price Signals This newsletter issue takes a look at the self-reinforcing cycle that stuffed excess global capital into the US stock market over the past 40 years (and especially the past decade) like a sponge soaking up water, along with an examination of catalysts…
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
From the Linux kernel to Firefox and Wordpress, Open Source is changing the world for the better. But how to achieve financial sustainability when you produce something that can legally be copied, by design, at zero cost? Revenue models for Open Source A lot has been written about achieving profitability
Notes and observations, five days in.
Lessons learned in my first year as a platform engineer.
Tiny startups are not Google-in-miniature-form
Fate has made me the “money guy” for OpenSSL so I’m going to talk about that for a bit.
Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II.
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One of the topics that is a common dilemma founders of enterprise software companies face is pricing It’s a complex issue which does not lend itself
This article attempts to reflect back on the most meaningful lessons learned by building electricityMap, Bloom and North at Tomorrow.
Tablet market share numbers sure do look different when you don’t count any of the tablets that people are actually buying.
