tech, startups, internet
How big is software?
This is a short and interesting read. “Patio11’s Law: The software economy is bigger than you think, even when you take into account Patio11’s Law.” | learn more
Tag: software
tech, startups, internet
The arc of collaboration
Productivity software (e.g. Dropbox) and collaboration software (e.g. Slack) have long been separated. This post discusses how the next step in software combines the two, “and why the Slack of Gaming may be Discord but the Discord for Enterprise is […]
tech, startups, internet
Machine learning deployment
From Benedict Evans: “In the last 5-6 years, machine learning has gone from ‘crazy idea from the 1980s’ to ‘software’. That has come with several waves of deployment and several waves of company creation, as we work out what to […]
tech, startups, internet
The gross margin problem: lessons for tech-enabled startups
David Sacks, the original COO of Paypal and now a VC at Craft Ventures digs in to the difference between tech startups, which are mainly software, and tech-enabled startups, which operate in meat-space (my term, not his). While the former […]
on the blockchain
9 things you didn’t know about Ethereum 2.0
This post presupposes that you know what Ethereum 2.0 is (a big upcoming software release, which includes a switch to proof of stake). | learn more
better doing tech, startups, internet
Never trust a programmer who uses the word impossible
When I was a youngster, I would labor at the keyboard of our family computer trying to make it do as I said. You might say I “taught myself” how to program. What does that really mean? It means I […]
better doing
Software and the Tough Tomato Principle
“Most people think of tools as designed around their material, not materials around their tools. But in practice, tools and materials are constantly reshaping each other.” | learn more
to your health
EHR ‘gag clauses’ may soon come off
As I peel back more layers of the health care system onion, I really appreciate some of the nuances that this industry has developed. In this case, it seems that a lot of the big Electronic Health Record software vendors […]
fun facts
America’s cities are running on software from the ‘80s.
I had always suspected there was a structural problem causing governments to stay behind the times on technology. This article shed a little light on it for me: modern software can’t be treated as CapEx, so the expenses must come […]
to your health
Full-stack pharmaceuticals.
Nisarg Patel writes an interesting post that discusses how healthcare is evolving as a tech-enabled consumer business. “A swath of chronic diseases desperately need integrated, end-to-end solutions that seamlessly integrates pharmaceuticals, software, and support services in a single package.”