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
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Tribalism and me
It has been more than six months since I have posted. One of you actually wrote to me asking me to continue to write. I began this blog in 2006. For several years before, I was struggling to write a book on the history of broadband. I discovered that at least for me, writing a … Continue reading
The Tax Bill: Policy, Payoff, and Politics
I want to share my perspective on various aspects of the bill. This blog post is not a comprehensive analysis, but I do hope it adds a bit of insight. Policies Tax is not just a way to collect the funds for the government. It can also be a way to shape policy. For … Continue reading
Jerusalem: It’s complicated
The status of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel has gotten a lot of attention recently because President Trump declared that Jerusalem was Israel’s capital while not saying anything about its status as the Capital of a future Palestinian State. The purpose of this blog post is to lay out some of the facts that … 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
The Saudi Century? Part I
A Clash of Generations There is a lot going on in my neighborhood. The 32 year old Crown Price of Saudi Arabia is really shaking things up in the region. He just confined 13 of his rich and powerful cousins (many billionaires) in the Ritz Carlton. He closed down the airport where they keep their … 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 