So Now What?
Was the election outcome a reaffirmation of free market capitalism or a headlong lurch towards socialism or what Hayek termed, “The Road to Serfdom”? Wait! Is that what this election was about? Struggling with the daily COVID fear and loathing,…
Ghost Town and Peak Valley
Ghost Town? A few weeks ago I took my car to the mechanic in downtown San Francisco. It was nice day, with nothing else to do and contemplating the assorted possibilities of COVID exposure in an Uber or public transport,…
Who Shot the Sheriff? (of Nottingham)
When I got back to the states in March, walking through an airport that seemed to have suffered a neutron bomb strike, I knew life would be different for a while. It wondered what manner of distractions would appeal to…
The Incorporeal Economy
In October 2006, Netflix launched a contest. They offered a $1 million prize to any team that could improve their movie-recommendation software engine by 10%. Netflix’s global hackathon eventually engaged 30,000 engineers loosely organized and endlessly re-organized into hundreds of…