October was beautiful in Atlanta. It usually is. Football season, you know. But this one was especially fine. Highs in the 70s and 80s, lows in the 50s or 60s. Clear skies, almost no wind. I rode my e-bike to stores and restaurants, rode it all around the city each weekend, discovering new routes, new […]

The story of the 2024 election is obvious in hindsight. It’s a tech story. AI beat the cloud. Democrats ran a cloud campaign. They used cloud technologies to build their support, then sought to activate the support through the fall. This is how Obama won in 2008. But tech has changed. The “tech wreck” of […]

Over the next two months we’re going to hear a lot about Grover Cleveland.  Cleveland, like Trump was President twice, listed as the 22nd and 24th. He came to town as a reformer, with just three years in politics behind him. He was a favorite of Mark Twain and other ‘Mugwumps,’ a financial and literary […]

Donald Trump won’t hold power next January. Donald Trump is a dementia victim. He is incapable of doing the job of President or any other job. My mother died of dementia in 2016. I know the symptoms. Peter Thiel (right), a South African immigrant behind the current Artificial Intelligence (AI) boom, will be President. How […]

I spent my career looking around corners as a tech reporter and a finance writer. This was easy in the era of Moore’s Law. I could keep up. But, as you will note if you read some of my recent posts, I can’t anymore. Trump’s re-election hit me like a thunderbolt, as I’m sure it […]

While awaiting the results of the election my thoughts turned to the next battle facing America and technology. That is the question of who will benefit from AI? Right now, I am a big winner. The wealth of AI is going to investors. If you own Amazon.com, Nvidia, Google or Microsoft, or especially if you […]

Everyone wants to talk about the Election today. I don’t. Instead, I want to talk about what separates car cities from walking cities. It’s not bike lanes. It’s the bodega. New York is filled with bodegas. These are tiny shops stocking small purchases people who walk a lot need to make in their daily lives. […]

I’m glad no one reads this blog because it means that what follows isn’t going to jinx it. Kamala Harris is going to win this election.  Despite constant press efforts to boost tension over the result, it’s clear Democrats have all the advantages heading into this weekend. We have a more coherent candidate, we have […]

When a manager loses the trust of Wall Street, you can feel it. It hangs over the stock like a depression. This is especially true when it’s a company considered vital to the national recovery. Like Intel (INTC). The knives are now out for CEO Pat Gelsinger, and a break-up of the company may be […]

The rise of Nvidia (NVDA) represented the first stage of the AI boom. Clouds bought chips with both hands to deliver AI tools to their customers. It’s still happening. Nvidia is now the world’s most valuable company. This week’s Alphabet (GOOG)(GOOGL) earnings represent a second stage for the AI boom. It’s proof that companies are using […]