Online Education is a Prestige Problem
“In 50 years there will be only 10 institutions in the whole world that deliver higher education” – Sebastian...
View ArticleDon’t Do Dumb Domains
What do Poosh All, Woisio, Guchex, and Klosti have in common? These aren’t the names of Pokemon. These are startups that have made terrible choices in picking their domain names. In a past life, I used...
View ArticleCheaper Windows Can Solve Microsoft’s Piracy Problems
Confession time: I’ve never paid out of my own pocket for a copy of Windows. This post was written on Ubuntu, and all the previous PCs I owned ran Windows sourced from “not-so-legal” sources....
View ArticleGoogle’s Expanding Censorship Net Jeopardizes Internet Freedom
What is Google? Or more specifically, what is Google search? Google search is essentially an algorithm. It’s a massive artificial brain that discovers and sorts and arranges the world’s information....
View ArticleWhat to do Now That the iPhone is Shit
So here you were, glued to the monitor (TV? iPad?), hoping for Tim Cook to pull a Jobs-worthy performance out of his hat, and when the moment came, that magic wand of your waiting held aloft for the...
View ArticleThe Most Dangerous Site on the Internet
I have a confession to make: I’m hopelessly addicted to Reddit. When I’ll be 80 and nearing death, I’ll look back at my life and account away 1/3rd of it for sleep, and at least 1/30th of it for...
View ArticleThis is Why I Didn’t Sign Up for Your App
Dear Startup, If you want me to sign up via Facebook for your app, please make sure that you DON’T ask me permission for the above. I do NOT trust any app to post things on my behalf, and I’m...
View ArticleThis Chart Shows Why Apple is the Greatest Tech Company of This Century
Here’s a chart of the top 50 companies by annual reveue: From 2009 to 2011, Apple increased revenue by $75,760 million. That’s a whopping 233% increase over just two years. No other company comes even...
View ArticleHacking for the Sake of Hacking
Of all the charges you can lay against VICE Magazine, being uninteresting can’t be one of them. The commodity that VICE deals in is a brand of abstract cool and hipster irony. VICE’s greatest assets is...
View ArticleWhy?
Behold the Bicymple, a chainless, two wheel unicycle that unnecessarily ‘disrupts’ something that doesn’t need to be disrupted: the bicycle. The humble bicycle has to count among the greatest of...
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