We’ll use almost any excuse to goof off and party, but let’s face it; holidays are no-brainers. Especially Thanksgiving. No gifts to give. No religion to fake. Just four fun-filled days of food and football with family and friends. And yet, something’s not quite right. Lately I’m thinking Thanksgiving[…] Read On
I have good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first? The bad news? Okay: The real world is a real mess. Ready for the good news? Okay: You’re lucky to be alive and well and living in it. I once had an employee – a manager,[…] Read On
Here’s a Jeopardy quiz for you: A: Politics, law and order, and medicine Q: What are three things you never want to have to deal with And yet, if you randomly tune in to a primetime network TV program, it’ll likely be about one of those three topics: political news/commentary[…] Read On
If polls about Donald Trump were even close to accurate, Hillary Clinton would be living in a big White House and the Donald would still be doing real estate development, beauty pageants and The Apprentice. And if fake news were indistinguishable from real news, Trump would have been impeached and[…] Read On
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