This FOX Business column, “Don’t Buy an Electric Car,” got a lot of attention back in 2013, and not all the good kind. Thought it’d be fun to revisit and see how it’s holding up, what’s changed, yada yada. You be the judge. I live in California, home to all[…] Read On
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Why We Fight
Described a marital fight to a friend today. “Why do you fight?” she said. That was the second time she’d asked me that question. My reaction both times was, Doesn’t everyone? You mean you guys don’t? What’s wrong with you? I didn’t say that out loud, but that’s what I[…] Read On
Quit Trying to ‘Find Your Calling’
How much of our precious lives do we spend searching for the one? The one true love. The best place to live. Our career calling. All that emotional energy devoted to finding three needles in the ginormous haystack of life. Think about it. There are billions of people on Earth.[…] Read On
Tesla: NY Times’ Elon Musk CEO Pay Story ‘Incorrect and Misleading’
Wonder why the media gets a bad rap these days? They work very hard to earn it. Case in point, the New York Times presents a completely misleading view of CEO pay in an annual survey piece by Peter Eavis, “It’s Never Been Easier to Be a CEO.” In particular[…] Read On
Proof That Political Ideology Rots Your Brain
One of the joys of living in the Bay Area is being constantly subjected to one-sided political ideology in inappropriate places like at work, school, restaurants, supermarkets, the dentist’s and what-have-you. I don’t have any hard data on this but, in my experience, every instance has one thing in common:[…] Read On
Congress Confronts Facial Recognition Controversy
When a crime is allegedly committed one of the first things police do is check video footage to try to identify the perpetrator. If they succeed in getting a good image, they now have a pretty good chance of IDing the perp, courtesy off big improvements in facial recognition technology[…] Read On
How Random Events Can Change Your Life
The SAT adversity score controversy reminded me of a story I’ve never told you folks – how a bizarre series of events forever altered the course of my post-collegiate career. The winter of 1977-78 saw the Northeastern United States get pummeled by a series of historic storms. One of them,[…] Read On