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Eastbank Esplanade
Portland’s waterfront park is fairly well known. Just across the water, on the east bank there is an equally inviting, but less trafficked destination, the Eastbank Esplanade. To visit it, I start at...
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Short Stories
I’ve decided to read more short stories this year. Perhaps I may even write one. I’ve also noticed that Powell’s Books has a good selection of chapbooks. In case you’re unfamiliar (like me), a...
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Roasting Coffee with a Popcorn Popper
I’ve been roasting coffee off and on for a while now with my popcorn popper. So far the results have been inconsistent, but the good batches have inspired me to keep trying. I plan on taking a...
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More Big Data for Credit Scores
This recent press release for FICO’s Model Builder for Big Data reminded me of the work I did last year for the Thomson Reuters Text Mining Credit Risk model. It’s nice to see that other organizations...
View ArticleNot Everything Has to be Great
Andrew O’Hagan’s article in the Times Magazine travel section bemoans our distaste for adequacy in an era of awesome: Not just in travel, but in terms of food, fashion, music, business ideas and...
View ArticleSharing Means Sharing Risk
Catherine Rampell writes about the dark side of the sharing-economy: It’s true that, in many ways, sharing-economy jobs can offer more autonomy than traditional employer-employee relationships. But...
View ArticleExplorers Avoid Disruption
Barry O’Reilly writes that exploration is the key to avoiding disruption, but you can’t explore without explorers. Avoiding disruption is impossible without a great team. Below is his five point plan...
View ArticleThe Rise of Distributed Autonomous Companies
David Morris has a thought provoking post about Distributed Autonomous Corporations (DACs) on Aeon: When everything from your alarm clock to your car is managed remotely through the global network,...
View ArticleThe Crummy Pillow Paradigm
Bob Borson writes If you think that you can’t be a part of the solution, you never will be. In fact – and possible even worse – you stop seeing the problems. Mindset is everything. I’ll add that I am...
View ArticleConcurrency, Complexity, and Composability
Who should and should not be talking to your fridge? by Gilad Rosner The dream of the IoT becomes a dystopian nightmare if anyone can mine your IoT data exhaust. Why is Concurrent Programming Hard? by...
View ArticleThe next wave of AI is rooted in human culture and history
“What is the value of our humanity? Is what it means to be human reducible to our intellect? If so, what do we imagine intellect is? And if not, then what are we designing out of the system that we...
View ArticleSpeaker Quotes from XOXO 2016
The speakers at the XOXO 2016 Conference were amazing and covered a huge range of topics. Here is a collection of quotes from the talks. I jotted these down as I heard them, while trying to follow the...
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