Monthly Archives: September 2008

my comment on seth godin’s post “breakage”: be careful with your customers

Seth Godin’s blog doesn’t seem to allow comments, so here we are.
I really like the theme of his most recent post, “Breakage“: you have to be careful with your customers.  You might go years upping prices bit by bit, then all of a sudden lose half your customers before you know it.  Massive swings like [...]

what i liked at techcrunch50: fitbit, grockit, goodguide, and peter thiel

I didn’t watch every presentation.  I probably saw 10 in person and streamed another dozen or so from home.  I also didn’t pay to attend the conference.  I volunteered for free admission, which meant showing up for a couple hours on Sunday to chat with the organizers beforehand, then showing up early Monday morning to [...]

using a speculative market to decide our laws? (”futarchy”)

I just learned of this idea today, and it caught my attention.  The post I’m referring to: http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.html
The two sentence version:
In futarchy, democracy would continue to say what we want, but betting markets would now say how to get it. That is, elected representatives would formally define and manage an after-the-fact measurement of national welfare, [...]