My blog posts are now available as short videos on my new YouTube channel. You can subscribe here. I will also put a link on blog posts for which I have created videos. I hope you enjoy the new format. Here is an example: My primary form of communication has been writing blog posts, along … Continue reading
Tag Archives: writing
A Favor to Ask
I have been writing this blog since 2007. There are about 570 posts with 430,000 word which is equivalent to about five books. I have never worked very hard at getting anyone to read it. Which is a strange thing to admit, because I clearly want people to read it. Otherwise, I would have just … Continue reading
My First Eighty Years Were About Building the Platform — Now the Adventure Begins
I write about my eighties not because my life has been exceptional, but because so few people my age write about this time of their life at all. I want to inspire them if I can to embrace the future not fear it. Trying to Understand What Defines Me A few weeks ago, I created … Continue reading
My memoir, The Flight of a Wild Duck, is now free on Substack — thanks to Claude Cowork.
https://avram.substack.com/p/the-flight-of-a-wild-duck-start-here It took me three years to write my memoir. The first year was spent doing research, the second writing, and the third editing. I enjoyed the process immensely. I had three audiences in mind while writing it. The first was people like me or parents of people like me who could not follow the … Continue reading
AI / Avram's Past / longevity
The Decline and Ascension of Avram Miller
My body is slowing down as my brain speeds up. It is quite a dilemma. It is understandable that my body would be slowing down. After all, I am 81 years old. But why is my brain speeding up? That is not to be expected. Now, I feel like I felt when I was an … Continue reading
My recent interview with an Italian Journalist
L’INTERVISTA Avram Miller: “Da Intel Capital all’AI, la mia vita da agente del cambiamento” I had the pleasure of being interview recently by Luciana Maci of EconomyUP which is an Italian digital media outlet focused on innovation, startups, technology, and the transformation of business and society. The actual article in Italian can be found here. … Continue reading
about business / AI / AI / Longevity / Technology / The Post PC Period
My First Speech in 27 Years — And Likely My Last
A while back, I was invited to speak at an event connected to the World Business Forum conference in Milan which was sponsored by the Italian Institute of Technology. At the time, I was beginning a relationship with the organization. Having recently moved to Italy, I was looking for a way to stay connected to technology … Continue reading
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse and AI
In 1963, I took a course on German literature at the University of California. We studied three authors: Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, and Hermann Hesse. That course changed me. It opened a door into a world where intellect, creativity, sexuality, and even drugs intertwined. I still remember the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, where I … Continue reading
Winding Down, Winding Up or Just Winding-The Next Ten Years of my Life
When I was diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer in 1996, I made a decision that changed my life forever. Prostate cancer is slow growing, and if the treatment did not work, I would still have at least ten more years to live. In my case, it appeared that the cancer had metastasized (it had … Continue reading
Would you like to know how long you have to live?
You’re looking at an 80-year-old man born in 1945, on the day Auschwitz was liberated. Realizing how old I am is often a shock. It’s difficult to come to terms with this. For most of my life, I saw myself as the youngest person in the room—even when that was no longer true. I still … Continue reading
