Well, it was surreal while it lasted, by which I mean the 2017-18 cryptocurrency bubble. For…
Author: Jon Evans
JIRA is an antipattern
Atlassian’s JIRA began life as a bug-tracking tool. Today, though, it has become an agile planning…
Welcome to the stochastic age
In 1990, Kleiner Perkins rejected 99.4% of the proposals it received, while investing in 12 new…
Glimpses of China’s parallel tech universe
What can we learn from DETECTIVE CHINATOWN 2? Quite a lot, actually. The 11th biggest box-office…
The slow corrosion of techno-optimism
Two weeks from now, the Swahilipot Hub, a hackerspace / makerspace / center for techies and…
Mattereum, perhaps the world’s weirdest and most daring startup, intends to own literally everything
How’s this for eyebrow-raising? In London, for the last year and a half, a team of…
What if Google unionized?
Last week more than 20,000 Google employees walked out of their workplace to protest, and demand…
The tools, they are a-changing
Building web services and smartphone apps, which is most of what I’ve been doing professionally at…
Blood money
Some years ago an investor I met at a TechCrunch event invited me out for a…
At what point do we admit that geoengineering is an option?
In 1883, Krakatoa erupted, spewing volcanic ash and gas into the stratosphere, making clouds more reflective…