Category Technology
Simulating the Market
I’ve had a lot of friends and family approach me, asking for investment advice. After learning about, trying to build, and approach markets in systematic trading programs, I realized I didn’t have the type of instantaneous “hot stock tips” I’d feel comfortable giving to a close friend or family member; rather I knew a bit […]
Uber’s ‘God View’
We are all aware of the digital footprint we are creating when we use social media applications such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, but less aware of the analog activities such as Citibike and Uber. Companies are collecting massive amounts of our personal data to learn from and to better understand their userbase, but why […]
Evolution and the CEO Dilemma
Netflix is ubiquitous with personal cinema consumption whether it be on the family living room big screen or the laptop on the couch. Everyone remembers how Blockbuster was the place to go to rent a movie in sweats, but how did Netflix so successfully infiltrate their market? Blockbuster had the opportunity to buy Netflix for […]
Sharing Two Wheels and My Personal Data
Models It was the summer of 2008 while touring in Munich with my family when I first learned of the shared bike program that Deutsche Bahn had been running successfully for a few years. The bikes, bearing the unmistakable “DB” in big red letters, in typical utilitarianistic German fashion, made the bikes easy to spot […]
Decision Analysis
Trading is a zero-sum game, there must be a loser for every winner, so you might think that either you can be only wrong or right for any given trade. A trader friend of mine broke down for me the decision analysis process he takes when evaluating his performance. He argued that it is not […]
The Alchemy 