We make trade offs all the time between what we would want now and what we will want later. Human beings have a pretty good ability to project into the future. But I am also interested in the relationship and obligation of our future self to who were are now and what that means for our future self. Continue reading
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Obama, I am willing to run as your Vice President but only if you listen
Dear Barack, the person that I wish would be come president is the man I voted for in 2008, you. But you turned out not to be the person I thought you were. Some how you thought you could play the political game and win. You thought you were a giant but you even a … Continue reading
These are the good old days for Apple and not just because Jobs has passed
Companies like products, have life cycles. Apple is very unusual because it was able to reinvent itself. In particular, Apple went from being a niche PC player with a relatively small market share to the leader in revolutionizing music (iPod), the cell phone (iPhone) and creating and leading the tablet market (iPad). But each of … Continue reading
Do I really need to travel with seven devices
This is nuts. Look what I am traveling with: 1)Macbook Air, 2) iPad, 3) Kindle Fire, 4)Kindle, 5), iPhone , 6) iPod Touch and 7) AppleTV. In addition I carry various thumb drives, a digital camera and wear a flitbit. And guess what? They all do different things well. Continue reading
Steve Jobs Bio: A review sort
I just finished Walter Isaacson’s bio of Steve Jobs. I would say it is informative but not insightful. For tech junkies, especially of the Apple genre, the book has detailed information about the history of Apple and especially how product and business decisions were made. This history is presented in a clear and factual manor. … Continue reading
Facebook stop stealing my blog posts
I listened to an interesting interview (aren’t all) on Fresh Air about the war between google, amazon, facebook and apple (notice Microsoft was not even mentioned. By the author of this article on the same topic in Fastcompany Magazine. Clearly many companies are fighting to control the user/customer. When I was at Intel in the … Continue reading
Avram, the Merchant Seaman
Reading the Steve Jobs bio made me want to share a bit more about my past just in case Walter Isaacson does not write my bio. Continue reading
The Republican Nominee was not on the stage at the debate
The next president of the United States could well be a republican but it will not be any of the clowns we have been seeing at the republican debates. Continue reading
Siri
This is the first blog that I have dictated. I have dreamed of the day that I could really use voice dictation instead of typing. Maybe this day has finally come. I am doing this blog on an iphone 4s and I am dictating with my voice. Continue reading
PSA Testing Debate
There have been a number of recent articles in the press (most notably at the New York Times) about the advisability of giving men routine PSA tests to detect if they have Prostate Cancer. A government panel has recommended that the practices of giving men over 50 (or over 40 if there is family history) be stopped because it results in needless procedures that are costly and effect men negatively without saving lives. I believe this is a dumb recommendation. The PSA can provided valuable information that can save lives. It is not the PSA test that is the problem it is what is done after the results come back that is the issue. Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 