Monthly Archives: July 2015

The Best Venture Capitalists Harvest Optionality (Dealing with Risk, Uncertainty and Ignorance)

The Best Venture Capitalists Harvest Optionality (Dealing with Risk, Uncertainty and Ignorance) “If you ‘have optionality,’ you don’t have much need for what is commonly called intelligence, knowledge, insight, skills, and these complicated things that take place in our brain cells. For you don’t have to be right that often. All you need is the […]

Ask Ethan #95: Could it all come crashing down?

Ask Ethan #95: Could it all come crashing down? “There are three things that go into a revolutionary scientific theory: 1.) It has to reproduce all the successes of the previously existing theory. 2.) It has to explain the new results that contradicted the old theory. 3.) It needs to make new, testable predictions that […]

‘Sesame Street’s’ Sonia Manzano says goodbye

‘Sesame Street’s’ Sonia Manzano says goodbye

Aerial View of the Port of Oakland Container Terminal

Aerial View of the Port of Oakland Container Terminal July 2, 2015 at 11:15AM

Self-driving cars drive like your grandma

Self-driving cars drive like your grandma from: July 1, 2015 at 09:31AM

the three big stories of modernity

the three big stories of modernity from: July 1, 2015 at 09:25AM