Richard Sprague
What little I know about
technology
,
China
,
consumer biology
,
the future
, and more.
Monday, September 03, 2012
(Almost) leaving China
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Bubbles are fun! I lived in Tokyo for most of the late-80s and early-90s, Silicon Valley during the dot-com days, Seattle during the real es...
Sunday, August 05, 2012
The inevitability of human enhancement
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I watched a TED talk by Juan Enriquez ( Will our kids be a different species?) that wasn’t particularly informative if you’re up to date on...
Saturday, August 04, 2012
Medicine and Anti-Fragility
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Black Swan author Nassim Taleb in his highly-anticipated upcoming book uses the term anti-fragility to describe systems that are the oppos...
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Asymco's Dediu in China
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Horace Dediu's asymco.com (Twitter: @asymco ) is one of the best mobility analysis sites out there, so I was excited about his recent ...
Saturday, June 09, 2012
Calibre for books
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A mazon Kindle has become my main way to buy books, which of course is incredibly liberating because nowwith the Kindle app I can put ever...
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Mike Daisey and the fight to keep people in crummy jobs
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I listened to the riveting This American Life podcast retracting its January episode "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs", featu...
Saturday, March 17, 2012
The Fat Years [Book]
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China deserves to be number one. That's an unstated premise of this book, which is all the rage among intellectuals and others inter...
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