Elizabeth Warren is at it again. This time the rapidly declining democratic candidate is proposing hefty civil and criminal penalties for the spreading of disinformation online. Let that sink in for a minute. This is the woman who lied about her background – calling herself a native American and a[…] Read On
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Bubble Logic
I’m struggling to wrap my head around Nasdaq 9,300 – nearly twice the dot-com bubble peak – Apple’s $1.4 trillion market cap, and the notion that the combined value of five west coast companies is higher than the GDP of every country in the world but the U.S. and China.[…] Read On
The Lunatics are Running the Asylum. So What’s New?
Dear WebMD, What do you do when you wake up and suddenly realize you forgot to take your meds for three days straight? While you were out playing manic psycho dude you managed to royally screw up everyone’s weekend. Now the wife’s locked the bedroom door and no one else[…] Read On
Doomsday Clock Ticks 20 Seconds Closer to Global Apocalypse — Quick, Get the Chips and Salsa
The hashtag #DoomsdayClock has been trending all day on Twitter. Wait, you mean you’ve never heard of the famed Doomsday Clock? Join the club. I hadn’t heard of it either, until today, that is. Or maybe I have but it was so traumatizing that I blocked it out. Or maybe[…] Read On
Fire a Toxic Executive? Not So Fast
It’s impossible to overstate how destructive one toxic individual can be to a company. While that’s especially true in an early stage startup where just about anyone can have a big influence on team performance and morale, it can happen in any organization of any size if that individual is[…] Read On
Gender Fluidity, Obese is Beautiful and Other Ludicrous Nonsense
James Bond is a dude. Next question. Whenever I even think about covering this topic it always comes out sounding ridiculously trite in my head, like trying to explain why 1+1=2. Human sexuality, psychology and extremely rare conditions aside, each one of us has either xx or xy chromosomes and[…] Read On
The Founder’s Dilemma: Optimist or Realist?
The problem I see with today’s entrepreneurial culture is a surprisingly unrealistic if not utopian expectation of the startup process. They have this notion of going straight from founding and funding to fame and fortune. Never mind the whole building a company and growing a business thing. Some of these[…] Read On