Entrepreneur, author, analyst. Twitter, is by all accounts, the best source of information on ongoing crisis. It needs to stop there. In November of last year, when I was pulling a gargoyle (Snow Crash) and providing real time analysis of events unfolding in Mumbai, user levels were such that it was still manageable for readers to rely on [...]
Stephen Ganyard has a great op-ed in the NYT today on how disasters are local and ‘flat’ training exercises (flat as in zero overhead and broad participation) can generate tinkering activity that can be used to create “$25 solutions to multimillion dollar problems.” I’m as much a fan of Golden Phoenix as anyone, but it [...]
A layer: a parasitic website that is underpinned entirely by another, that allows functionality that is not in the host. For predators that otherwise may be easily targeted (such as say drug dealers on Craigslist), a layer would allow an avenue of approach that the host would be unaware of or unable to cope with. [...]
Craigslist is already a top performing P2P trading platform for any and all goods and services (from sports tickets to amateur pornography). Which way is this (largely) legitimate platform going to lean as the going gets increasingly tough (D2)? Will it remain as is (or will it even be allowed to remain as is) or [...]
Here’s a smart metric to keep in mind when packaging a governance platform. Baseline electricity requirement for optimum human development is 4,000kWh annually per person. The report. Sign up for my newsletter.