The Virtue of Selfishness, and Net Neutrality
In a recent NYU Stern class (Economics of Social and Other Networks), we covered the economics of net neutrality, “a principle that advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers or…
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Trading Games… Working the Limits
As noted in this post, I’ve been teaching an Order and Execution Management class at work. In my attempt to make this class interesting and interactive, I’ve supplemented lectures with…
Advice to Entrepreneurs from VC Eric Hippeau
Another excellent set of guest lecturers in Digital Media Marketing at NYU Stern this week: Eric Hippeau, a venture capitalist famous for investing in Yahoo and the Huffington Post amongst many others,…
IT is Rubbish: Notes from the Buy-Side Technology Summit
The most inspiring talk at today’s Buy-Side Technology Summit was one hedge fund manager’s passionate appeal to get rid of all IT staff, a comment that generally did not go…
Trading Game… and Chickens, Cows and Horses
I’ve been teaching an Order and Execution Management class to staff at work, and to illustrate a few points on accounting, price setting, the importance of communication, the difference between…
Jonah Peretti & Viral Marketing
We recently had Jonah Peretti, a co-founder of The Huffington Post and creator of BuzzFeed, guest lecture in my Digital Media Marketing class at NYU Stern on viral marketing. What…
Unpacking Kozmo Jones
I’ve been holding onto this since 2006: a children’s poem about two of my now-gone dogs, Kozmo Jones and Angel. I sent this to several publishers back then, but no…
Our Big Deal Germany Vacation
Given my wife and I spent a solid 15 hours documenting up an itinerary for our vacation to Germany (thank you TripAdvisor!), we wouldn’t be doing it justice if we…
Bored with (Bulletin) Boards
Several years ago, I became somewhat obsessed with the idea that certain forms of digital communication mediums were lagging in their evolution relative to others. You would need Silverlight to…