• AI frenzy and general nervousness

    AI frenzy and general nervousness

    It’s an interesting time to be in silicon valley. Although I’ve been in tech for a long time, I first arrived here at the bottom, March 2009, of the Great Recession. It was an interesting time to be here as the proto-elements of web2.0 (aka social media) were embedding themselves…

  • AI, Energy, and the way forward

    Of late, I’ve been digging deeper into the ecosystem surrounding the AI boom. Of course, I’m taking advantage of AI to do this, and in particular Google’s NotebookLM. While I can’t claim that the chart below is 100% accurate, it’s does offer a decent summary of the collection of content…

  • Moved some content to Substack

    If you’re looking for my latest thoughts, head on over to my Substack. See you there!

  • On the “That’s Genius Podcast”…

    On the “That’s Genius Podcast”…

    A few weeks back, I sat down for a conversation with Michael Rose of Five9 for their That’s Genius Podcast: That’s Genius Episode 16 Edit: Here’s part 2 of our conversation: That’s Genius Episode 18 Photo by Jonathan Velasquez on Unsplash

  • Most valuable companies of all time

    source: Visual Capitalist

  • The need for more insight into the present

    The need for more insight into the present

    Om Malik makes an excellent point on the need to contemplate the present as it’s happening. So much of our collective present is chunked up into tweet-sized analysis that we may be losing the essence of the times we live in.  Anyway, his post is worth reading: As an avid…

  • The force is strong with this one…

    Looking forward to seeing Rogue One on the big screen this winter…

  • An excellent video on WV’s classic ad campaign from the ’60s

    Simple, and to the point…   The advertising that Volkswagen ran in American magazines and newspapers in the 1960s was legendary, perhaps the greatest ad campaign ever.. This is a great little documentary about how the ads came about — pitching “a Nazi car in a Jewish town”.. Source: Those…

  • Mobile web and native are different, but both are important

    Mobile web and native are different, but both are important

    This is an excellent post on why web and native apps equally important In other words. The Web is for audience reach and native apps are for rich experiences. Both are strategic. Both are valuable. So when it comes to mobile, it’s not Web vs. Native. It’s both. Source: LukeW |…