“We don’t need you to type at all because we know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less guess what you’re thinking about … Is that over the line?” – Google Chairman Eric Schmidt A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away[…] Read On
First read this. Don’t worry, it’s short. Then I’ll tell you how long ago I wrote/published this strangely prescient piece, what with all the big online data breaches and security threats of recent years. Not to mention that it foretells the rise of Google, “There has never been a better[…] Read On
Video of a weekly all-hands meeting where Google’s top brass candidly discussed, ranted and occasionally cried about the “shocking” and “upsetting” 2016 presidential election results recently leaked. You can watch the whole video in all its gory progressive partisan glory here. Now, I don’t really care who Alphabet (Google’s parent[…] Read On
Here we go again. First there was the gender wage gap. Now it’s the gender equity gap getting everyone all riled up about gender bias in startups and Silicon Valley’s brogrammer culture. Cue the sensational headlines, the breathless commentary, the activist protests and the Twitter trolls. As usual, the truth[…] Read On
Two years ago, Elon Musk revealed his Master Plan, Part Deux for Tesla. Sounded great. Unfortunately, and I have no idea how this could have happened, that plan appears to have been a fake. This, I believe, was Musk’s real plan: Paint a bullseye on the company by taking nearly[…] Read On
Another day, another Steve Jobs tell-all book. Cue the biting commentary, the judgmental outrage, the recriminations, the Twitter tantrums. Yawn. Not to mention the overwrought headlines by disillusioned techies who didn’t even read the damn book, like Business Insider’s “The memoir by Steve Jobs’ daughter makes clear he was a[…] Read On
“In the interview on Thursday, Mr. Musk alternated between laughter and tears.” – New York Times If you got anything from the New York Times’ revealing interview with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, it’s that the billionaire entrepreneur is completely miserable. The man is stressed out, sleep deprived, paranoid that short-sellers[…] Read On