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Welcome To Autumn – And Some Events

Amy and I love autumn. It’s crisp, harvest time,...

Why It’s Safe for Founders to Be Nice

August 2015I recently got an email from a founder...

My Upcoming Events in Boulder

Now that I’m out of hibernation for a while and back in Boulder for a month, I’m doing a bunch of public events.My approach, in general, is fireside chats...

Fed Holds Rates Steady. Here’s How it Impacts Mortgage Rates.

Federal Reserve policymakers announced that they were holding the federal funds rate steady after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on Wednesday....

Modeling a Wealth Tax

August 2020Some politicians are proposing to introduce wealth taxes in addition to income and capital gains taxes. Let's try modeling the effects of various levels of wealth tax to see what...

Introducing MCP: A new way to connect Fin and your customer data to your business tools

Delivering great AI customer service depends on more than just sophisticated AI models – it relies on real-time data and access to business systems like CRMs, billing platforms, and...

The latest AI scaling graph

Seen this? It (and the update to it) have been all the rage lately, among “AI forecasters”, on social media, and it has even made it into mainstream media...

The Cost of Passive Avoidance

Recently, the concept of “the truth” has become elusive. While mistruths, lies, and deceit have been a foundational part of our species’ communication, a new level of misdirection and...

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‘I wish the stones here could talk’: an epic hike through Kosovo’s Accursed mountains | Kosovo holidays

There are stone bunkers shrouded in the mist on the hillside to my right, just shy of the ridgeline marking the Albanian-Kosovo border. To...

I’m Ensorcelled by Books by Friends

I love books. I love reading. I love reading books.Ensorcelled by Eliot Peper is genius. It’s a unique format that can be read in...

‘I worked at a place that gave you “points”… Every sick day:’ Employees share the most non-functional sick leave policies they’ve had to work...

Employees are sharing some of the most ridiculous sick leave policies they have had to work with and they make you want to smack...