Video of a weekly all-hands meeting where Google’s top brass candidly discussed, ranted and occasionally cried about the “shocking” and “upsetting” 2016 presidential election results recently leaked. You can watch the whole video in all its gory progressive partisan glory here. Now, I don’t really care who Alphabet (Google’s parent[…] Read On
Monthly Archives: September 2018
The Startup Gender Equity Gap, Explained
Here we go again. First there was the gender wage gap. Now it’s the gender equity gap getting everyone all riled up about gender bias in startups and Silicon Valley’s brogrammer culture. Cue the sensational headlines, the breathless commentary, the activist protests and the Twitter trolls. As usual, the truth[…] Read On
There’s Neurotic, Then There’s Me
I was working on a post for today — my take on the leaked Google TGIF meeting where the search giant’s execs are seen melting down over the 2016 election results — when I found out that I need foot surgery to remove two fractured sesamoid (not sesame, sesamoid) bones[…] Read On
The Casual Look: Fleeting Fad or Here to Stay?
I don’t know what success means to you but to me it’s always meant not having to shave or dress up for work. Guess I was way ahead of the curve on that but I couldn’t be happier that the world eventually caught up. Nobody bothers to shave or dress[…] Read On
Thoughts From an MRI Machine
Funny what goes through your head when you’re alone with your thoughts and no distractions for a while. I’m lying in this MRI machine listening to all the thumping and pumping and wondering how I’m going to keep still for 30 minutes without going bananas. So I tune my brain[…] Read On
How Celebrities Get Millions of Twitter Followers
Some guy started following me on Twitter today. He has more than three million followers. I was intrigued; what’s so special about this guy’s tweets to have all those followers? So I picked a random day and was rewarded with this: I had a dream that the Russians were bombing[…] Read On
PSA: Get Off Social Media and Get a Life
When asked in a recent CNBC interview why he doesn’t tweet more – you know, like Elon Musk and Donald Trump – Warren Buffett replied, “I am not that desperate for somebody to hear my opinion.” Since Buffett’s far too nice a guy to just come right out and say[…] Read On