What I was reading, last week.

1. A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? (theatlantic.com) 2.Forbes Site, After Begging You To Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up A Steaming Pile Of Malware ‘Ads’ (techdirt.com) 3.Tech Company Workspace Trends Spread to Other Firms (naiop.org) 4.ARE YOU

What I was reading, last week.

1. A Dangerous Question: Does Internet Advertising Work at All? (theatlantic.com) 2.Forbes Site, After Begging You To Turn Off Adblocker, Serves Up A Steaming Pile Of Malware ‘Ads’ (techdirt.com) 3.Tech Company Workspace Trends Spread to Other Firms (naiop.org) 4.ARE YOU

Second, Third, Fourth: counting revolutions.

The Second Machine Age. The Third Industrial Revolution. The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Robots – the second machine age (the MIT guys) Third Industrial Revolution – computers and the Internet (Rifkin) Fourth Industrial – Internet of things? (Schwab, maybe also Rifkin?)

Second, Third, Fourth: counting revolutions.

The Second Machine Age. The Third Industrial Revolution. The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Robots – the second machine age (the MIT guys) Third Industrial Revolution – computers and the Internet (Rifkin) Fourth Industrial – Internet of things? (Schwab, maybe also Rifkin?)

The city, a machine for living in. (For my talk on Tuesday with Dan Doctoroff at DLD.)

The image that inspires our conversation about the fourth revolution in cities. The line from Le Corbusier: “A house is a machine for living in.”

The city, a machine for living in. (For my talk on Tuesday with Dan Doctoroff at DLD.)

The image that inspires our conversation about the fourth revolution in cities. The line from Le Corbusier: “A house is a machine for living in.”

The University as a machine for making the future.

The folks at Columbia asked me to provide a brief account of this new class I taught at Columbia College this year. This is what I said, below. And this is the link to more about it. Copernicus, Galileo and

The University as a machine for making the future.

The folks at Columbia asked me to provide a brief account of this new class I taught at Columbia College this year. This is what I said, below. And this is the link to more about it. Copernicus, Galileo and

How to get your email/domain deleted from the universe.

Easy, really. 1. Loose permissions somewhere in a WordPress 2. Someone puts a www.paypal.com clone type site up 3. The internet police (LogicBoxes?) shuts down the domain entirely at the nameserver level, with the cooperation of your registrar Dreamhost 4.

How to get your email/domain deleted from the universe.

Easy, really. 1. Loose permissions somewhere in a WordPress 2. Someone puts a www.paypal.com clone type site up 3. The internet police (LogicBoxes?) shuts down the domain entirely at the nameserver level, with the cooperation of your registrar Dreamhost 4.

“Specialization is for insects.”

A great line with a great history of fans. More on the lore here –> https://beta.knotable.com/p/CJcTng/328-pm-Apr-7th

“Specialization is for insects.”

A great line with a great history of fans. More on the lore here –> https://beta.knotable.com/p/CJcTng/328-pm-Apr-7th

People don’t read.

// Mr. Rhomberg recently gave a workshop at Digital Book World, a publishing conference in New York, and some of his findings confirmed the worst fears of publishers and authors. On average, fewer than half of the books tested were

People don’t read.

// Mr. Rhomberg recently gave a workshop at Digital Book World, a publishing conference in New York, and some of his findings confirmed the worst fears of publishers and authors. On average, fewer than half of the books tested were

French Presses make better coffee

The French press is agreed by most coffee tasters to be the best tasting coffee you can make. Howard Schulz (Starbucks founder) makes his morning cup for him and his wife this way. It’s also faster. Just boil water, pour,

French Presses make better coffee

The French press is agreed by most coffee tasters to be the best tasting coffee you can make. Howard Schulz (Starbucks founder) makes his morning cup for him and his wife this way. It’s also faster. Just boil water, pour,

Charles Baudelaire on entrepreneurship

The Parisian symbolist bohemian is writing about artists but he may as well be talking about the feeling and mindset of startup founders and entrepreneurs. // Pour soulever un poids si lourd, Sisyphe, il faudrait ton courage! Bien qu’on ait

Charles Baudelaire on entrepreneurship

The Parisian symbolist bohemian is writing about artists but he may as well be talking about the feeling and mindset of startup founders and entrepreneurs. // Pour soulever un poids si lourd, Sisyphe, il faudrait ton courage! Bien qu’on ait

Advice for doing, from Hamlet.

Of thinking too precisely on th’ event— A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward—I do not know Why yet I live to say “This thing’s to do,” Sith I have cause and will

Advice for doing, from Hamlet.

Of thinking too precisely on th’ event— A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward—I do not know Why yet I live to say “This thing’s to do,” Sith I have cause and will