Aug 28, 2021
Proponents of the use of NFTs for establishing ownership of creative works have a correct diagnosis but an incorrect prescription. They correctly observe that the status quo for creative production does not work well for creators.…
Sep 29, 2020
Recently there was a minor controversy over a blogpost from Coinbase’s CEO discouraging employees from thinking about politics, and encouraging them to focus on profit-making.…
May 3, 2020
A platform for hamburgers. Think GrubHub. In this note, we’ll try to understand what is a platform, and whether they can be improved with a “coop” structure.…
May 25, 2016
There’s a famous dubious argument that “proves” the set of $\mathrm{Tree}$ of (planar, rooted) binary trees is in bijection with the set of $7$-tuples of trees $\mathrm{Tree}^6$.…
Jan 18, 2016
The ideas, knowledge, beliefs, laws and regulations, etc. contained in a culture would be the genetic instructions ordering the use of exosomatic energy.…