System-Level Design
Jim Hogan and I wrote a piece on system-level design for Chip Magazine’s “VC corner”.
Clarity of Thought
An unpublished essay from 2006, with some interesting predictions, and optimism, about how change was going to come.
Life and Death at the Brandenburg Gate
I first visited the Brandenburg Gate as a student, just before the Berlin Wall came down. I went with my mother, a first-generation Holocaust survivor; she later died there, exactly there, of natural causes. I revisited the memorial last summer, with my sons and German wife and family. Here’s an essay about reunification, reconciliation, and forgiveness.
Cybersecurity Seminar at Stanford
On January 23rd, 2009, I gave a seminar entitled “Cybersecurity” at Stanford University. You can find a public version of those slides here.
Manifesto for the Second Half
A close friend of mine is thinking about dramatic changes in his career. In laying out the case, I try to envision what the next thirty years may look like for him, and for us.
Creationism and Descent
Last year the Discovery Institute cleverly positioned itself as the victim in a case involving academic tenure and Intelligent Design. Politicians and fundamentalists still flog the point, exploiting science’s conservative language to create controversy where none does, or should, exist.
The Economic Crisis
An essay about the mortgage crisis and the turmoil it unleashed on the capital markets.