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Friday, July 18, 2025

Personal Note: My new song "Unknown Land" is now available!

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For those readers who also follow or are interested in my musical adventures, I'm very happy to be able to share the good news that I re...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Book Review: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism. Sarah Wynn-Williams (2025).

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Several years ago, I read and reviewed an excellent book from 2016 about Silicon Valley and particularly Facebook called Chaos Monkeys: Insi...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Personal Note: The Memory Cache -- Now on Substack!

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Hello, and greetings to all my friends, family and interested readers! As you may know, since early 2022 I’ve been posting to this persona...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Book Review: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (2022). Chris Miller.

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I was intrigued this morning to read an article about a growing problem in the latest iterations of new generative AI products. This probl...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Book Review: Abundance (2025). Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson.

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I have long been an admirer of Ezra Klein, his writing and his New York Times podcast The Ezra Klein Show . In my opinion, he is one of the ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Book Review: The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power and Deception on the Eve of World War I (2023). Douglas Brunt.

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During the past year, I've read a number of excellent books that seemed to resonate as part of the backstory to some of the most urgent ...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Book Review: The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource (2025). Chris Hayes.

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I heard on the news last night that this brand new book by the popular MSNBC commentator Chris Hayes has zoomed to the #1 position on the N...
Friday, January 31, 2025

Personal Note: It's 2025, and I'm Back!

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Hello! It's been quite a few months since I posted anything on here. I just wanted to let you all know that I'm still here, and gett...