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Startups and Libertarian Populism

As more and more people look to the startup community to save our nation and our economy, it is only reasonable for things to get way more political. As more former bankers and teachers and rodeo clowns start companies, we’re witnessing the emergence of entrepreneurs as a political bloc. But we are influenced by a [ READ MORE ]

Sex, Smartphones and Statistics

Haven’t gotten your pop psychology fix today? Well, OkCupid is pleased to let you know that iPhone users have more sex than users of other smartphones. Their evidence — a handy chart — is below: OkCupid didn’t provide sample sizes, but let’s assume we’re dealing with their entire userbase — a statistically significant sample. This [ READ MORE ]

Your Decisions are Wrong. Is Your Methodology?

I made a lot of mistakes while running GoCrossCampus. Lots of people ask me questions that more or less amount to “If you could have done X differently, what would you have done?” I always answer these questions sincerely. “Oh, I would’ve done A rather than B and C rather than D” or something like [ READ MORE ]

The Next Generation of Game Mechanics

I’ve already had a few things to say on the coming explosion of game mechanisms in non-game apps, but listening to Gabe Zichermann talk at last week’s New York Gaming Meetup raised some new questions. I agree with Gabe on a lot of things. We’re absolutely seeing a proliferation of game mechanics throughout the internet, [ READ MORE ]

Welcome to New York, Paul Carr

If you haven’t read Paul Carr’s piece on his experience at New York Internet Week, go read it now. If don’t have time, I’ll summarize. Paul’s interaction with New York went something like this: 1. Media tool gets invited to New York by other media tools 2. Media tool goes to an internet week party [ READ MORE ]

Analog’s Last Bastion

Almost everything is digital. It started with simple stuff, like calculators, watches and measurements, and now the digital revolution totally owns cable television, video, music and photography. But there’s still one huge pile of valuable information that has yet to be captured and digitized: our conversations. The conversations we have with other humans are one [ READ MORE ]

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