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Ten years ago today I posted Economies of Scale in Peer-to-Peer Networks . My fundamental insight was: The income to a participant in a P2P network of this kind should…

“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene Some people ride bikes in the rain….ON PURPOSE….just for the…

Days, it turns out, are rather easily made. The time required varies, but trends closer to making the bed, or making a cup of tea, than to making Ravioli. (If…

Awhile back I read and reviewed Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, because there were a lot of things about that book that made me not want to read it, but…

Forty miles west of the last largely populated islands in French Polynesia is a small volcanic island surrounded by an atoll-like ring of land protecting the inner waters from the…

I don’t think most people realize how Firefox and Safari depend on Google for more than “just” revenue from default search engine deals and prototyping new web platform features.Off the…

A poem by Paul Wilke

Confession: I use ChatGPT as a “test reader” and “editor” for my posts. I always have lots of self-doubt over whether my writing makes sense to people, so before I…

If only I could bring some real crows and ravens along to one of my Raven/Crow presentations; they speak more eloquently for themselves than I could ever do. This morning…

The Surface Laptop 7 is a wonderful little laptop, but ultimately ran into a number of hiccups in the first eight hours of use. Above photo shot with the new…

Fall is here and I’m excited for my October class at Pete Galbert’s. I’ll burrow into the shop for the winter, then we’re going to do it again in spring.…

Reflecting on 2024 while watching trashy TV. Also, links to articles I've written and have read.

My father died four years and three months ago after a struggle with cancer. None of us had the heart to write an obituary in the early days of the…

“Andy Warhol, A Corpse in the Water, opium and a Botched Tribunal” – sounds like clickbait. And yet, as always, it’s all true. The post Andy Warhol, a Corpse, Opium,…

Wednesday, August 28th, marked the beginning of the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the Polish train manufacturer Newag against train maintenance yard Serwis Pojazdow Szynowych and experts from the Dragon…

Lots of interest in gene editing startups but in practice they don't do that well: Few diseases can be corrected through gene editing, hence valuations of such companies, despite FDA…

Taking a brief look at the iPhone SE's history, and thinking about how the fourth-generation iPhone SE should look versus how it will likely look.

Shana Tova to all who celebrate the Jewish New Year. The passing year has been an extremely tough one on a personal and national level. I sincerely hope that the…

Image Details & Source Aerial Photography Of Zig-zag Road by eberhard grossgasteiger on Pexels Click Here for the Original, High-Quality Image This page was last modified: October 3rd, 2024 This…

Four years ago, unable to find a comprehensive summary of the ongoing abject failure known as the NASA SLS (Space Launch System), I wrote one. If you’re unfamiliar with the…