by Sean | May 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
Last week we saw a tipping point occur in the automation of global labor markets: Foxconn, the firm that produces iPhones and other electronics, has cut 60,000 jobs from its workforce of 110,000 — replacing them with robots. Adidas announced that it was building its...
by Sean | May 25, 2016 | Education, Politics, Teaching
Anyone reading the news today would assume that bathrooms are the biggest issue facing our education system. Why are we fighting over something as trivial as which bathroom a student prefers to use when our education system is one of the worst in the modern world? In...
by Sean | May 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Blockchain suffers from a serious marketing problem. In the minds of most consumers blockchain and bitcoin are one in the same. And the major stories of blockchain has been about speculators making (or losing) enormous amounts of money, teenagers buying drugs, or...
by Sean | May 20, 2016 | Business
Investment bankers and entrepreneurs love to trade horror stories about the number of hours they work in a week. 90, 100, 110 hour work weeks are seen as a badge of honor. Anyone who has ever put in long hours knows that your productive output falls apart past a...
by Sean | May 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
In the world of software engineers love to talk about their stack. Your stack is the combination of tools, apps, and utilities that power your widgets. (ex. a MEAN stack runs MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, and Node.js). The combination of tools is greater than...