I am very grateful for my successes as it has allowed me to speak freely of about my many failures. Status I am making a lot of progress and now have written about seventy pages so far. I expect the book will about be about 300 pages when finished. At first, I spent most of … Continue reading
Category Archives: Avram’s Past
Rereading Only the Paranoid Survive
At the suggestion of my friend, David Yoffie, I reread Andy Grove’s book, Only the Paranoid Survive, written in 1996 and I am glad I did. David, who is a professor at Harvard’s business school, served on the Intel Board of directors for almost 29 years leaving in May of 2018. David visits Israel several … Continue reading
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My book in the making
Below is a description of sorts about I book I am working on. It is actually a great deal of work as I have to conduct a lot of research and assure its accuracy. Now, I need some feedback. I am concerned that the companies, people and events may not be relevant to today’s readers. … Continue reading
Drinking the kool-Aid (how billions were lost creating PDAs)
As I try to decide if I should write a book, I have been reading or rereading various books about the computer industry. I just finished Jerry Kaplan’s Startup, written in 1995. Jerry founded GO Corporation in 1987 to develop pen-based computers, and I still think the book has value today for those starting technology-based … Continue reading
Seeds of Discontinuity
A small part of the Apple iOS 12 announcement got me thinking: Live Listen. I love spotting little pieces of new technology that can profoundly affect the evolution of human culture: I call them Seeds of Discontinuity. For example, I vividly remember seeing a flip phone in 1999 that had an embedded camera. … Continue reading
Staying alive
I was very sick as a child. It is surprising that I survived. I suffered from serious chronic asthma. Asthma runs in my family. My father had it as well when he was a child. I think mine was brought on by allergies, but also by emotional stress. My father and mother fought all the … Continue reading
My interview with the Huffington Post
Here is a blog post, I don’t have to write. The journalist that did the interview, Yitzi Weiner, left the Huffington Post they took down all his work which I find kind of strange. This included the interview with me. So I am posting it here on my blog. 5 THINGS I WISH SOMEONE … Continue reading
Dick Gregory and I share a laugh in jail 1964
The great comic, Dick Gregory died yesterday, August 19th at the age of 84. He was a great man. You can read about his life here.I only meet Dick once. It was March 1964 at the San Francisco Palace Hotel Sit-in. It was one of a series of protests on behalf of African … Continue reading
An Analysis of my leadership effectiveness from 1989
I have been cleaning up my home office and I am running into all sorts of interesting materials. One thing I found, I thought would be worth while sharing here. It is a Leadership Effectiveness Analysis that I took while at Intel in 1989. I had joined Intel in 1984 after the failure of Franklin … Continue reading
Venture Capital and Sexual Abuse
There has been a lot of discussion in the press about sexual abuse by venture capitalists. As frequent readers of this blog will know, I am not very positive about the venture capital industry which really means I am not very positive about venture capitalists (with some important exceptions). Since I was one of the … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 