Banned In The FB
This is an email I just sent to Facebook, via their feedback form. Hi there! Apparently someone complained about one of my posts, claiming that it violated your Community Standards.…
Bringing Geeks To Nairobi: Request For Comments
[Update: a clarification here, based on thoughtful feedback: this idea is something I discussed extensively with local tech people in Nairobi when I was there. All of them were very…
Rise
It's New Year's Day of 2014, and I'm feeling confessional. (Not in the legal or moral sense, more in the poetic sense.) I get the impression that I am widely…
Digging For Fire: Introduction
This is the first draft of my introduction to my upcoming book, which is currently (tentatively) entitled Digging For Fire: Seeking Innovation In East Africa. This may not make it to the…
An Unfortunately Open Email To Any NSA Employee Who Might Be Reading It
This is an email I just sent to myself, in case anyone is reading my accounts. Maybe you're not reading this. Maybe you're just collating it, my words encoded on…
Finding Innovation In Africa — support my IndieGoGo campaign!
My campaign is live! Wonderfully, we raised over $2500 in the first day -- a quarter of the way there! There's still a ways to go, though, and I'd love…
Africa Book – Crowdfunding
So I'm finally in a position where I can make the trip to Africa I've been wanting to make for most of my life, to write a book about technology…
Righteous Kill
Like most Americans, I've been thinking a lot about guns these past few months, since Aurora and Sandy Hook. And like most Americans, I've come to a series of conclusions…
If the tech industry worked like the music industry, continued.
"Hey, it's my rock star devs! How's it going, guys?" "It sucks. We busted our ass for months building this thing, and we can't make enough money to pay rent.…
If the tech industry worked like the music industry
"Hi! You're a venture capitalist. We're a tech startup. We have a web app we want to sell to people." "Great! So here's how this works: we're going to give…