Archive of posts from 2016
You Must Be Present To Win
“Radical politics is bodies in places.”
What Exactly Are You Protesting
Every day for the last five days, Americans in every major city have organized and sustained protest marches against Donald Trump’s fascism and bigotry. I have spent most of that time trying to muster the courage and energy to join these marches, trying to overcome the gloom and devastation and hopelessness that I felt.
Whiteness
(Yes indeed, today we’re talking race.)
Seven Year Exercise Windows
Most startup option grants come with a 90-day exercise window when an employee leaves the company (voluntarily or not). This is standard practice. Essentially the problem is that this can force employees to take a major personal financial hit to exercise their options when they leave or are fired, and perversely this is worse the more the company has grown during their time there. (Exercising options comes with a tax hit proportional to the amount the stock has increased in value since the option was granted.)
CFPB's New Report on Debt Collection
I wrote a twitter thread about the CFPB’s 2016 Annual Report on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Click through to see the whole thread.
AI Clears New Hurdle; beats European Go champion 5-0
Today Google’s DeepMind team announced that they built a Go-playing AI which beat the European Go champion 5 games to 0. This has been a long time coming! Look at timeline of games conquered by computers: