Marc Andreessen’s 2011 essay “Why Software Is Eating the World” opened our eyes to a growing trend, that tech companies are disrupting age-old industries and creating high-growth markets seemingly out of thin air or, more precisely, out of computer code. The Silicon Valley venture capitalist cited several innovative companies[…] Read On
From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, everybody’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with this year’s crappy unicorn IPO class. Uber, Lyft, Peloton, Slack, Pinterest – they’ve all underperformed post-IPO. WeWork couldn’t even get off the ground with that loony $47 billion valuation, finally ousting CEO Adam Neumann and pulling[…] Read On
“People are dying. They are dying.” – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez With all due respect to Greta Thunberg and AOC, people aren’t dying from climate change, but they are dying from mass stupidity, ironically stemming from their smartphones. She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and[…] Read On
When it comes to names and logos, people get weird. Emotional. They either hate them or love them. Become attached to or can’t stand the sight of them. Rarely are they indifferent about the one thing they should be indifferent about since, for the most part, they make little difference.[…] Read On
What do you think would happen if the interactive web – social media, YouTube, blogs, podcasts, comments, all of it – suddenly disappeared? It would probably be a little disorienting at first, but in the long run, … We’d quit living with our eyes glued to little screens and our[…] Read On
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who behave like adults and those who look like adults and behave like spoiled brats. The latter refer to their clumsy attempts at the former as adulting. ICYMI, adulting is millennial speak for what some of us – fewer[…] Read On
Our culture fetishizes innovation. Fanaticizes market disruption. But that’s not how the world really works. Right now I’m wearing torn blue jeans, a t-shirt, a hooded zip-up sweatshirt, white sweat socks and a pair of Converse All-Star sneakers. This might as well be a scene from half a century ago.[…] Read On