Face it, there’s no escaping the realization that you were completely full of shit when you said, “I’m ready to get back to work.” Maybe you were ready to get back home or to have the house back to yourself. That I believe. But back to work? I don’t think[…] Read On
I’m beginning to wonder if I went to bed in 2019 and woke up in a bizarro 2020 world where everything is reversed. I’m not sure if it’s utopian thinking, fake news, poor judgement, guilt or grossly misplaced compassion that makes some people put the lives of terrorists and the[…] Read On
Every year, Santa and I get together at his place, break out the nog, boogey down to some righteous classic rock and talk about corporate America’s naughtiest CEOs. Sure they make a lot of dough but the fat man can’t resist filling their Christmas stockings with big black lumps of[…] Read On
Has it really been 20 years since the turn of the millennium and the dot-com bust? Holy crap! What the hell happened to my hair? My abs? My memory? My legendary hangover resilience? The New York Giants? At least I’m still above ground, so there is that. As I’m sure[…] Read On
I trust you all enjoyed your Christmas festivities without skewering any of your more annoying relatives with a dinner fork. Take it from me, it’s way harder than you’d think to kill someone with an ordinary eating utensil — unless of course you’re John Wick. Nothing groundbreaking on my end[…] Read On
I’ve resisted watching HBO’s Silicon Valley for years. Another cynic’s view of what Silly Valley has become in the latest bubble seemed too depressing to watch. And make no mistake, we are in a bubble. Not just private equity — ideology too. Having gone through the dot-com bubble, way too[…] Read On
The first time I was enticed to join a tech startup by some well-known executives and VCs, it didn’t take long for me to figure out that these experts must have been smoking something when they signed up for this gig. I quit after nine months. Sure enough, the company[…] Read On