While my wife and I travel about four months a year, I tend not to write about our trips (she does that on her blog, http://www.eatdrinkfly.com), but our recent trip to Budapest surprised me. Having traveled extensively worldwide for almost 60 years and being a history student, I pride myself on my knowledge of history … Continue reading
Category Archives: About life in the last third
The Flight of a Wild Duck was published a year ago
My memoir, The Flight of a Wild Duck, was published a year ago. It took me three years to write; a year of research, a year of drafting, and a year of editing. While it was a lot of work, I found the experience rewarding. I learned a lot about the history I had lived … Continue reading
Time Travel via the London Underground
Today I took a trip on a “time machine” via the London underground. I went back to 1965 when I first arrived in London at the age of 20. My grand uncle Joe Harris and his wife Alice, invited me to visit them. At that time, I was living in Paris. Living is not really … Continue reading
My talk to 150 high school students (mixed Jews and Arabs)
On Sunday, I had an opportunity to talk to about 150 students aged 16 and 17. I was the opening speaker for the summer program by a remarkable organization called MEET. They work with teens in what they call “The Region,” which is really Israel and the West Bank. Half of the students are Jews … Continue reading
Intel’s strategy for the future is to recreate the past
Intel’s strategy for the future is to go back to 2005. It was then that Paul Otellini, the CEO of Intel, turned down the opportunity to be the manufacturer of the chip that would be at the heart of the iPhone. The result was that Apple went to Taiwan Semiconductor to produce that chip. In … Continue reading
A significant chapter, or better said, a volume of my life, is over
When I turned 50 in 1995, I began to think about how my life would evolve. I realized that I wanted to have a home in the wine country of Sonoma, California. During this period, I had often been traveling to Italy. I fell in love with Tuscany but knew that it did not make … Continue reading
My interview on the history of residential broadband
As many of you will know, I played a leadership role in creating residential broadband. My activities span the period of 1992 to 1999. Not only was I involved in the development of cable modems and DSL modems, but I used Intel’s might to pull together all the elements required to create what became a … Continue reading
Continuously monitoring our critical physiological parameters
We are in the process of going from a time when critical information about our bodies will go from being measured occasionally/rarely to a time when they will be measured continuously. This capability will be a significant transformation in maintaining and improving our health. But, unfortunately, the medical professional unsurprisingly is lagging. I have been … Continue reading
Why I might end up loving Omicron
It seems my recent post on the Omicron in Israel was overly pessimistic. It now appears that it is indeed much less severe than the Delta, although very infectious. Maybe this is what we have been waiting for. Everyone will get infected, although most may not even know it. Omicron may be the read to … Continue reading
The Announcement I wish Joe Biden Would Make
I wrote on Facebook a few days ago that I thought Joe Biden was failing at the tasks he faces. Lots of people defended Biden saying he is doing his best. That he was dealt a bad hand etc. I wrote back that none of that matters. That we had less than a year to … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 