The fiercest critics of technology still focus on the ephemeral have-and-have-not divide, but that flimsy border is a distraction. The significant threshold of technological development… Read More »Technology: ubiquity changes everything
The network effect is powerful, and a source of tremendous value, and we need to understand how it works. Networks depend on standardisation – a… Read More »The trampoline: networks, standards and freedom
Richard Stallman famously wrote the GNU GPL, which is a license based on copy-left, not copyright. His position is the freedom to work with computers… Read More »GNU-GPL – a base of code
When I was a kid, my cousin had a tape-recorder just like this one – it had a microphone with a yellow sponge. Putting the… Read More »Feedback (positive)
Your stick Here’s a first try on the importance of fundamentals in learning. Imagine you are holding a long stick – better yet, a sword… Read More »Learning for the future: fundamentals
Here’s a theory of learning: A person**… meets something new… has some kind of interaction with it… and is changed in some way. I think… Read More »Learning
Stan Lee was brilliant and prolific. We know him for Spiderman, the X-men, the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther… for being the driving force… Read More »Stan Lee (1922-2018) – What If?
We all have change that we’d like to see in the world. There are things we’d like to abolish. There are things we’d like to… Read More »Progressive. Conservative.
On the other hand, doing something a particular way because that’s what everyone else does – or because it’s how it’s always been done –… Read More »Today’s status quo
Edmund Burke and Friedrich Hayek make good arguments for leaning towards conservatism (small c). For all its problems, the relatively stable equilibrium we live in… Read More »Conservatism and the status quo