The Chinese Century China will be coming out of the problems due to the Covid 19 virus before the USA. Right now the USA looks like it is in real trouble medically and financially. China will fill the vacuum left by the major decline of the USA. The world’s experience with democracy is … Continue reading
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Some thoughts about the Coronavirus
There is a lot you can read about the Coronavirus. Here is an excellent article. I want to add a few of my thoughts to the discussion. The statistics that are relevant to you When you read about the statistics, especially mortality, you need to realize that these number only are relevant when considering large … Continue reading
Piece Plan
I read the 180 page Peace to Prosperity plan. The bulk of the plan is in the first 40 pages. The rest are appendixes. I was going to write up a detailed analysis of it but frankly, it is not worth the time and effort. It does represent a fair amount of work on the … Continue reading
Learning Hebrew at 75
I have tried to live my life in 10-year increments and would often say that ten years is long enough to do things like learn a new language but was not so long that you can feel that you can wait. So here I am at 75 years old (next month) learning a new language, … Continue reading
Avram's Past / Finance / Intel
The relevance of Corp Venture Capital
I am Still Alive Several months ago, I was contacted by a contributor to Forbes, com, Gil Press. He was going to spend some time in Israel, where I live (mostly) and wanted to interview me about Corporate Venture Capital. Frankly, I was surprised that at this point in my life, anyone was interested in … Continue reading
Failing to help Intel after I left
Intel had been good to me, and I felt a responsibility to help the company even after I left. I offered help to Paul Otellini when he became CEO. Paul and I had been friends both at work and socially. I told Paul I would be willing to help in strategy issues and no one … Continue reading
Intel’s Board Fails at its most important task
I have personally served on dozen of boards. Five of these companies were public, Maxis, King World, CMGI, PCCW, and World Online. I have not served on a public company board since 2002. The majority of the boards were private companies. I resigned my last board position at the end of 2018. I don’t plan … Continue reading
A little bit of the book
Staying Alive I was seven years old when I began thinking about the universe and my own role in it. Staring at the ceiling in the Stanford Convalescent Home, in Palo Alto, I asked myself why I had such a weak body and such a strong mind. It’s terrifying when you can’t breathe, thinking you … Continue reading
Update on my book
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
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
Two Thirds Done 