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Monday, September 29, 2025

TV Review: The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal. On Amazon Prime (2025).

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New readers of mine on The Memory Cache, and now on Substack, may not be aware that as a lifelong amateur rock musician and music fan myself...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Book Review: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (2024). Jonathan Haidt.

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In the course of my recent reading on the topics of the attention economy, and the effects of our society’s overload of attention-disrupting...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Book Review: The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want (2025). Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna.

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I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading lately on the topic of AI (Artificial Intelligence). AI is naturally interesting to me as a former IT...
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 ...