Applying Thomas Kuhn’s Framework for Scientific Revolutions to Bitcoin — Allen Farrington poses a thought provoking question in his essay, Wittgenstein’s Money. Referencing a popular quote by the Wittgenstein¹, he asks, “What would it seem like if it did seem like a global, digital, sound, open source, programmable money was monetizing from absolute zero?” He points out that Bitcoin’s critics…

Have you ever read one of those stories written by an AI? At first, it can be pretty surprising that a machine can string together seemingly coherent sentences and even a plot. But when you’re done, you can’t help but laugh or scratch your head because what is produced just…

Like all technologies, it can be abused Much like the air we breathe, we are immersed in a vast atmosphere of thoughts primarily comprised of words. But unlike breathing, language — conveying complex meaning through the use of symbols — is not an automatic biological process but a human invention¹…

We are a culture obsessed with speed and productivity. I first recognized this bias and its consequences as an engineer working at a startup, but this extends beyond the tech industry. Today, news events are dissected and reported on instantly. We share headlines and soundbites in real-time and respond rapidly…

The story of Blue Apron’s rise and fall from grace seems straightforward. As business analysts would have you believe, it was simply doomed to fail from the start. It has a poor business model, a commodity product, and operates in a highly competitive industry. But I was there from the…