Opinionated

There are a bunch of weaknesses and biases in the way our brains work. They’re hard to see, thinking about the brain is kind of like trying to see your own eye. Without a mirror, without time and tools, it can’t be done. Most of us never seek out any information about how our own brains work. …

Paul Graham wrote recently about the increasingly addictive nature of much of what we produce. He takes this as a consequence of technological progress, that we will inevitably create and discover things that are highly attractive to us. He points out that the Internet became addictive while we were in the middle of using it, it …

So, long time no see. Nearly five months since I last posted to my own blog. Juggling startup duties with being the father of three daughters and all the rest of the things life throws at you is always a challenge, and unfortunately when a few more health and life related balls were thrown my way I dropped some. Despite …

I have heard plenty of complaints from friends and colleagues, and seen similar things in the press, that they don’t see the benefit in the iPad because they’ll still need to lug around a laptop and a phone. So now they have even more stuff and another charger to cart around with them. They’re mistaken for two …

In 10 years when we look back at the shape of the computer industry, 2010 will mark the clear start of the post-PC era. The PC as the primary computing device is dead. They won’t go away, but they won’t be the main way that the average person interacts with data any more. It has …

A lot of ink and pixels are being spilled this week about announcements made at the Facebook conference this week.  Many of the new things announced are already live. Facebook is still lacking in one major area, and until this is fixed I and a lot of other people will remain uncomfortable. We need to be able to …

Update: Google has fixed the problem with their site not handling iPad correctly.  You can now configure up to 25 calendars from your Apps or Gmail account to sync to your iPad calendar. There is a bug/oversight currently affecting calendar sync with the iPad.  If you have already been a user of Google sync in the past …

As soon as things started looking pretty grim in late 2008 I knew it was time to be thinking about starting new companies. At the time it was mainly intuition, and the knowledge that the majority of great companies in existence today were started during down cycles.  I also believe in the platinum rule of “Invest where …