Esther Dyson, an entrepreneur and angel investor concentrating on emerging markets and technologies, is principal of EDventure Holdings. She is a board member of numerous companies, including 23andMe, Eventful, Meetup, NewspaperDirect, Voxiva, WPP Group, XCOR Aerospace, and Yandex, and was an early investor in such notable start-ups as Evernote, Flickr, Mashery, Medstory, Omada Health, and Square.
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Commentaries by Esther Dyson
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The HICCup Manifesto
NEW YORK – It is hard to find anyone in health care who does not believe that spending $100 now on healthy behavior – exercise and proper nu…
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Exceptions Become the Rule
NEW YORK – Long ago, I worked as an analyst on Wall Street. The first company that I analyzed was Federal Express, which at the time had not…
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Why Work at Work?
PHUKET – Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo!, recently created a fuss by issuing an edict that forbids anyone at the company to work from h…
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Caveat Sender!
NEW YORK – How many e-mails do you have in your inbox? In general, each one represents a task – something to read, a query to answer, a meet…
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The Healthy Crowd
BERLIN – I recently attended the JP Morgan health-care conference, the Davos of the medical world. And, like the World Economic Forum’s annu…
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The Rise of the Attention Economy
MOSCOW – I was recently posed the following question: “The most important way in which the Internet and online social media are changing our…
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The Challenge of Medical Empowerment
ABU DHABI – If people can make themselves healthy, should we blame them for getting sick? That is the stark question raised not only by broa…
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Orderly Email
PHOENIX – You may have heard of the “quantified self” movement – the idea that you monitor your own vital signs such as weight or blood suga…
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India’s Feet and Minds
NEW DELHI – Last month, I visited the Jaipur Foot clinic in New Delhi. You may have heard of the Jaipur Foot. It is both an invention – a pr…
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Technology’s Mental Frontier
NEW DELHI – Starting with the opening ceremony at the London Olympics, I have spent the last few weeks considering history and spending time…
The HICCup Manifesto
Nathan Coppedge: There is a strong argument going for the idea that people simply do what they want. If they have very particular tastes---however 'atrocious'---they are not likely to benefit by a program which could …
Exceptions Become the Rule
Nathan Coppedge: Some of this topic is interesting to the 'higher forms' of statistics, e.g. status quo preferences as a floating wave, and preferential off-set systems which have potential to modify the status quo. …