The wife is getting sick of my snark. And who can blame her? Just like me, snarkasm doesn’t age well. It sort of gets on your nerves after a while. And thirty years is a pretty long while. But I ask you, how can anything that feels so right be[…] Read On
I’m a little down today. I’m mourning the death of nuance, particularly with respect to language, communication and political discourse. I’m mourning the death of any form of human communication that isn’t an emoji, a meme, an acronym, an AI-generated message or technical gobbledygook. I’m mourning the smiling pile of[…] Read On
The most valuable trait among industry leaders? Intellect, says Watson, IBM’s AI supercomputer. Tell us something we don’t know, Watson. Like why you and the other brainiacs at IBM can’t figure out how to stop the company’s 7-year revenue, profit and share price slide. Now that would be brilliant. For[…] Read On
I know it’s been a little quiet around here lately. Just working hard on book #2 and paying some bills. You know how it is. Just wanted to let y’all know that all is well, I haven’t fallen into despair over the Yankees losing to the Astros and decided to[…] Read On
It’s official: My wife is now a wine snob. After years of classes, training and experience – not to mention an awful lot of tasting (wink wink) – my certified sommelier wife Kim is ditching big, ripe, fruit-forward American wines in favor of more austere French-style wines with higher acidity[…] Read On
“We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” – Speaker Nancy Pelosi Every company culture has its own unique jargon. Facebook’s mantra is “Move fast and break things.” Zuck and company sure have stayed true to that, especially the second part. Amazon’s[…] Read On
On a business trip back in 2001 I read that South Korea had the highest rate of alcohol-related auto deaths of any civilized nation. The thing is, I was sitting in the back seat of a taxi on the way to Seoul’s Incheon Airport at the time. I couldn’t resist[…] Read On