America was founded as a meritocracy. Letting people rise, and fall, based on their own actions, is the key to our success. The Gilded Age families of the 19th century, the Astors and Vanderbilts, are forgotten now because their wealth and power have dissipated. Anderson Cooper may be famous, but he’s not wealthy, even though […]
Over 2 years ago, when most of the media was still celebrating him, I compared Elon Musk to Henry Ford. Not in a good way. I have seen nothing since to change my view, only to darken it. Last year was horrible for the South African immigrant, currently the world’s wealthiest person. He bought Twitter and […]
The early innings of AI remind me a little of the Texas fracking boom of the early 2010s. A lot of money is going out. Not a lot is coming in. Frackers had to compete for leases, for equipment, and for drillers. Dozens of new companies were formed, and one even gave our family money […]
Many people think it’s racism, or sexism. They think it’s love of Hitler, or the Spanish Inquisition. It’s not. It’s classism. My Friend Edna From 1983-2015 I had a neighbor named Edna. Edna was a home health care worker. She took a bus every day to some rich person’s house to care for their aging […]
For the last year the Cloud Czars have been playing The Great Game with AI. The term, coined in the 19th century around the imperialism of European powers, refers to tech industry leaders jostling for power around a paradigm shifting technology. Artificial Intelligence is such a technology. The Background Having covered tech for over 40 years, […]
If you create content there are two sources of income. The audience can pay you, or an advertiser can pay you. Most content rides on a combination of the two methods. You can no longer make money offering content online. The trend is now coming for TV. There are two reasons for this. The first […]
Stop being gaslit. Assuming he survives into November, Joe Biden will be re-elected. Kamala Harris will be our 47th President. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution is going to keep the economy humming. Trump is going to continue to disintegrate like the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz. The Republican Party is going into the […]
A lot of people are calling the Cloud Czars greedy these days. They’re nickel and diming their customers, charging for things they never charged for before. They’re laying people off and deprecating services people have come to depend on. But it’s not really greed. It’s panic. Having spent 10s of billions building today’s cloud infrastructure, […]
One of the big themes of 2024 so far is that Joe Biden is old. He’s as old as Paul McCartney. As old as Barack Obama’s late mother. He’s older than any Baby Boomer. He first ran for public office in 1970. He served in the Senate with men born in the 19th century. That’s […]
Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show and was promptly eviscerated by Democrats for stating that Joe Biden is old. This just in. Joe Biden is old. But that’s his superpower. If he’s re-elected and serves out his term, Biden will retire at 86. That’s the same age Konrad Adenauer was a half-century ago when […]
