When something’s bugging you do you keep it bottled up inside and let the pressure build until you melt down and go nuclear, or do you confront it head on and get it out of your system – even if that means a heated confrontation – so it doesn’t eat[…] Read On
“As we are unlikely to see an immediate end to capitalism tomorrow, DSA fights for reforms today that will weaken the power of corporations and increase the power of working people.” – Democratic Socialists of America There’s a lot of talk about overthrowing the status quo these days. The topics[…] Read On
Elon Musk is resorting to desperate measures to hit his promised run rate of 5,000 Model 3 sedans a week. Tesla’s eccentric CEO has built an ad hoc “tent factory” out of spare parts from the company’s Fremont assembly line. “Words fail me. It’s insanity,” said Bernstein Analyst Max Warburton,[…] Read On
The recent wave of uncivilized public behavior isn’t just appalling. It isn’t just alarming. It isn’t just aggressive. It’s so much more horrific than that. One way or another, this will end badly. It will do harm. Big-time. And there’s only one way to change that outcome. Consider long-time congressional leader[…] Read On
“Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get me.” – anon The day the Wall Street Journal ran its blockbuster expose on Theranos I saw Elizabeth Holmes defend herself on CNBC. The CEO claimed that everyone from Quest Diagnostics to John Carreyrou — the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter[…] Read On
Everything that’s ever made a real difference in my life was influenced by others. Who are these mysterious “others?” You can call them mentors if you like. I didn’t call them that at the time and neither did they but that’s neither here nor there. In every case, it went[…] Read On
I have a huge chip on my shoulder: I don’t like being told what to do or how to do it. Maybe there’s something wrong with me but I’ve always been that way. As a kid, forbidding me from doing something was tantamount to a challenge, like a great big[…] Read On