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What do you do after a genoicide? 20 Feb 2013 | 04:25 pm
Arriving in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda from most other African countries must be a bit of a reverse culture shock; the city is clean and pretty, the traffic not too busy and well behaved. The shops...
The Paleo diet is wrong about grains 12 Feb 2013 | 09:51 pm
The Paleo diet insists we should only eat things our forefathers ate back in the stone age; our systems just aren't developed to process modern foods. It's an interesting idea that intuitively makes s...
How Microsoft can win the Mobile Wars 22 Jan 2013 | 01:28 am
Forbes calls it game over for Microsoft. That seems harsh, but there is no denying that Microsoft hasn't been doing well in the battle for the smart phones. Each quarter it is the same story; Windows ...
Triposo Hackathon and the evolution of languages 9 Oct 2012 | 10:12 pm
This week we got the Triposo team together in Sitges, a nice beach town near Barcelona, for some thinking, discussions and general strategizing but also a hackathon in our finest of traditions. I dec...
Silicon Valley Startups vs German Startups 27 Sep 2012 | 08:26 pm
A lot of entrepreneurs who are starting out in Europe I talk to seem to have trouble with the ambition. Where as your 22 year old Silicon Valley startup will happily declare that their iPhone app will...
Ideas and the curse of powers of 10 17 Sep 2012 | 02:42 pm
Most people have lots of ideas. Some people even have ideas that are interesting and quite a few of those people start doing something with those ideas. Almost nobody finishes. Why is that? Simple. Ea...
On Bad Software and Bad Coffee 8 Sep 2012 | 04:26 pm
Two things have been puzzling me lately. Why do cafes make bad coffee and why is there so much bad software out there. In structure I think the two problems are related. Let's start with the coffee. ...
Copyright and Shutting up political opposition 22 Dec 2011 | 07:42 am
A lot has been made of the tension between the US government on the one hand wanting to protect Internet freedom, but on the other hand being open to shutting down sites that are accused of helping co...
On the silliness of visas 31 Oct 2011 | 08:02 am
A few weeks ago we decided to go to India; I feel cheated out of a summer by this last European august, so a bit of beach in Goa and some meeting of old friends would help see us through rainy Novembe...
Bye bye Google Labs, hello Triposo Labs 30 Aug 2011 | 10:49 pm
A few weeks ago Google announced it would be shutting down Labs. I had been meaning to blog about this for a while, since I have been a fan of Labs even before I joined Google. Labs was one of the key...
