Now that the stock market has soared like a gazillion points and officially mocked my foolish attempts at hedging against a market collapse I’m thinking it’s safe to return to my natural pre-viral state of cynical mockery. Some people are doing some very good work to lighten the mood in[…] Read On
Well, this is challenging. How do you come up with something to blog about when everything is somehow wrapped up in coronavirus? Wait, I’ve got something. Today is Kim’s birthday. We’re going to go for a long hike and tonight I’m going to make one of her favorite dinners, orange[…] Read On
The stock market is making you nauseous but you can’t look away. Zombie apocalypse movies hit too close to home. Playing hooky from work and doing whatever you want sucks. Purell hand sanitizer is worth more than fillet mignon. The wife is being nice to you. Too nice. It’s quiet.[…] Read On
Watching last week’s democratic debate between two old white guys I was struck by how often the word crisis came up. I counted at least six different times: there was Trump, climate and, of course, coronavirus. Also student loan debt, women’s rights and authoritarianism. Had the debate gone longer, I’m[…] Read On
We’re all whining about being stuck with our kids during Coronavirus lockdown. If our kids were on Twitter and cable news, all we’d be hearing is how they’re stuck with us. And what about the elephant in the room? We’re also stuck with each other. We’re stuck with our wives,[…] Read On
Sick of hearing about coronavirus 24×7? Join the club. I mean, how can you not panic with wall-to-wall news coverage telling you not to panic while inundating you with countless doomsday scenarios and obsessive routines to remind you that, should you happen to let just one lousy microbe live and[…] Read On
It goes without saying that technology has been an enormous boon to society. But for the past decade or so Silicon Valley’s unicorn culture has spawned a massively overhyped and stubbornly persistent private equity bubble. I doubt that’s news to any of you. But even though the public markets are[…] Read On