August 6, 2016
Neon Fever Dream is a gripping thriller set at Burning Man
Below is an excerpt from Neon Fever Dream by Eliot Peper. Neon Fever Dream is about a dark secret hidden in the swirling dust and exultant revelry of…
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July 31, 2016
In what contexts should messaging be the UI?
The current messaging hype is overstated. There are certainly some interesting and unique opportunities for messaging as an interface, but I contend the number of practical use cases…
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Corporate venture growth in Brazil is another sign of a mature tech ecosystem
Despite recent positive news and a renewed interest of international investors in the country, the reality is that Brazil is suffering. The country has endured a profound financial…
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Don’t make founders’ equity even
Sometimes I think about replacing the table in my office with a sofa and a box of tissues. I’m a lawyer, but sometimes I feel like a therapist.…
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Recasting Silicon Valley’s role in society
At Bloomberg’s recent technology confab in San Francisco, Marc Andreessen offered a vision for entrepreneurship, defining it as the ability to see how the world potentially could be,…
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Pop culture stimulates the evolution of the LA tech scene
It wasn’t so long ago that venture capital was a suburban California phenomenon. Los Angeles didn’t have much in terms of a real tech scene — and even…
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Bad UX kills
It clogs systems, causes accidents, wastes energy and makes people unhappy. It’s more than a bad experience on a website — in cities, bad user experience (UX) design…
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Waiting for the right professional network
Today there is enough data available to bring people of similar or adjacent profiles closer, and inform them about signals and contexts where they could either help, pay…
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Hacking poverty through mobile tech and social entrepreneurship
In Silicon Valley the term “hacker” has evolved to connote high praise for someone particularly creative, ingenious and adept at finding clever new ways to accomplish a difficult…
Read articleJuly 18, 2016
Why the top 5 tech companies are dead set on AI
At nearly every major technology event for the past five years we’ve been given at least one “wow” moment — when one of the big players would unveil…
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