Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.

I'll be blunt: Money's gotten buggy.

BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.

Consumers don't need to be forced to pay billions for so-called smart technology to know how to reduce their utility bills. We know to turn down the heat or air conditioning and shut off the lights.

The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.

Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.