software is eating the world

What’s Next in Computing?

The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial markets get a lot of attention. They tend to fluctuate unpredictably and sometimes…

The World When Everything Drives Itself

Last year, I asked 16 questions about self-driving cars. My questions were mostly about the cars themselves:

Lessons from the PC video game industry

The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed

Andy

Introduction to High Output Management

“At sixteen, son was watching him, mesmerized
Respect, not jocking him, was so amazing, besides
He came on the stage with lasers in his eyes
Walk with me now” — Nas, U.B.R. (Unauthorized Biography of Rakim)

Thoughts on building weatherproof companies

The best founder/CEOs want to build long-lasting, strong companies. But this isn’t…

Medium

“Now let me holler at ya partner, spit this game
In you ear for a minute, quit complaining
‘Bout how you can’t spend it cause you ain’t got it
You got what it takes but not enough to get started”
-Too Short

I have never fired anyone too early …..

How many founders have been in the position of hiring a senior executive — having gone through all the interviews, reference checks, board approvals, and negotiations — only to have doubts creep in all too soon after they start? Your hire doesn’t seem to be…

Virtual reality: a new creative medium where the default state is belief

The holy grail of virtual reality, the one that’s always been out of reach until now, is presence.

In the VR community, “presence” is a term of art. It’s the idea that once VR…