Jul 31
Feeling like you’re in control is so importantThe other night, I was in the Bettr@ office in Beijing, which is not but a 10 minute walk from the hotel that I’m staying at (the Sariz international, which is pretty nice since it has a gym). It was kind of late, and I was the only one left in the office. I asked [...]
Jul 23
Foundations for a new science of [informal] learningYou know… I don’t think it’s heretical to think that we’re building an app that has some serious mass appeal, while we think that our initial/early adopters will be highschool through Gen Y. Last week, Vince sent us this great study that validates our research about interest nets. There are some great little nuggets in [...]
Jul 23
Subvocalization could be awesomeThis is completely unrelated to bettr@, but I was looking through my notebook for stuff from the WFS conference and remember listening to a discussion about subvocalization and intercepting signals from the brain before they hit your vocal cords. This technology could be pretty awesome in due time. Some pretty amazing possibilities here, including never [...]
Jul 23
What ever happened to ebooks?You have to love publishers who are trapped in old models of conducting business: connecting people who had unique and interesting ideas about the world, the lumberjacks to cut down trees to make paper, and the distribution channels like a bookstore, Amazon.com, or in some cases, oligopolistic grasp over school boards (in the case of [...]
Jul 20
The real reason to work on startups: fix the world (and hat tip to Disqus)I just switched to Disqus commenting (I’m a huge fan of Disqus. Not that I get a ton of comments on here, but I haven’t been posting a ton in the past several months, which I fully intend on changing. For reals. In part I was reinvigorated to communicate the dire situation that our world [...]
