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Apr 24, 2025: “Business sentiment in Germany unexpectedly edged up in April, likely an endorsement from firms of government policies to boost spending on …
Apr 23, 2025: Google & Meta Share a Common Antitrust Thread: Advertising Google and Meta have come under vast amounts of antitrust scrutiny over the past few years, especially in the US and the EU. It’s important to …
Apr 22, 2025: Finished reading: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari 📚
Apr 20, 2025: A Quick Comment on the history of American Xenophobia -- From Japan to Russia to Latinos I’ve been very concerned about the hatred and negative rhetoric I’ve seen towards the Russian people on social media. We must not demonize …
Apr 17, 2025: Finished reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 📚
Apr 17, 2025: Finished reading: Facts and Fears by James R. Clapper 📚
Apr 10, 2025: Experiences Using Micro.blog so Far in 2025 It’s been a few months now since I started using Micro.blog as my main website and posting service, so I thought I would take some time to …
Apr 9, 2025: Finished reading: America’s New Map by Thomas P.M. Barnett 📚
Apr 1, 2025: Finished reading: Beneath a Surface by Brad Sams 📚
Mar 31, 2025: Finished reading: Playing to the Edge by Michael V. Hayden 📚
Mar 24, 2025: Finished reading: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚
Mar 17, 2025: Finished reading: The Sirens' Call by Chris Hayes 📚
Mar 15, 2025: A Quick Conversation about Apple's AI & Siri Problem In the technology sector, if you aren’t innovating, you’re falling behind. This is no different for Apple, who is not used to being behind …
Mar 14, 2025: Finished reading: The Gutenberg Parenthesis by Jeff Jarvis 📚
Mar 5, 2025: Finished reading: From Cold War to Hot Peace by Michael McFaul 📚
Feb 28, 2025: Interview with Stephen Wolfram on AI and Machine Learning I don’t normally share clips from podcasts I listen to, but in this case, it’s well worth it. On Intelligent Machines, Episode 808, the creator of …
Feb 23, 2025: Finished reading: Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella 📚
Feb 20, 2025: Finished reading: The Genesis Machine by Amy Webb 📚
Feb 13, 2025: I completed reading “Play Nice” by Jason Schreier.
Feb 10, 2025: Finished reading: Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum 📚
Feb 9, 2025: The Strategic Shift: Why UPS is Rethinking its Amazon Partnership and What it Means for Last-Mile Delivery We’re well in the middle of earnings season, but something stood out to me regarding a firm in particular. UPS revealed a significant shift in its …
Feb 6, 2025: Finished reading: The Big Nine by Amy Webb 📚
Feb 4, 2025: One of my goals going into 2025 was to talk less and listen more. In this goal, I’m attempting to become more knowledgeable and a more …
Jan 31, 2025: Finished reading: Chip War by Chris Miller 📚
Jan 30, 2025: DeepSeek's Surprise Entrance into the AI Arena DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has rapidly become a major disruptor in the AI landscape with its new AI model, R1. This model has gained global …
Jan 24, 2025: Ditching Instagram: Focusing on Meaningful Connections Yes! You heard it here first. Like all of you, I was excited for Instagram when it first hit the scene back in late 2010 and still had my original …
May 28, 2023: LLMs will Augment Employment; Not End it. LLMs, such as GPT-3.5 & 4 developed by OpenAI, possess impressive language processing capabilities. However, despite their remarkable abilities, LLMs …
Jun 21, 2022: Divestiture Debrief: The Kellogg Split Earlier this morning before the bell, Kellogg announced that it would be splitting itself into three-separate tax-free spinoffs: the slow growing …
Mar 23, 2022: On this Day in 2001: The Robert Hanssen Case Yesterday, I was reminded on LinkedIn that yesterday in 2001, the State Department notified the Russian government that four of its diplomats were …
Nov 22, 2021: Apple's Newest Diversification: Business Essentials Much like your own investment portfolio, companies continually must diversify to negate the ebbs and flows of their business segments. Up until 2001, …
Nov 15, 2021: Google's Tensor: The Data Company's Data Chip Ever since the release of the iPhone in 2007, Apple has designed and fabricated its own chips for its own devices. At the time, "owning the supply …
Nov 8, 2021: Primary Source Material is Crucial for Facts & Research Back in college we all had access to those often bulky, hard to use research databases, that sometimes worked, but often steered us in the wrong …
Feb 14, 2021: One Year at a Non-Profit Volunteering has always been a part of my personal ethos. I'm reminded of my time as an AmeriCorps VISTA at Engaging Creative Minds, which I spent a …
Feb 5, 2021: A Reminder of Intelligence Leadership and National Oversight As the Intelligence Community (IC) works to rebuild trust between its agencies, it's citizens, and other partner nations, this is a great time to …
Jan 29, 2021: A Primer on Apple's Q1 2021 Earnings I won't normally write about quarterly earnings reports from companies. You can get that story from many various sources. For the purposes of this …
Jan 19, 2021: Arms Race in the Arctic Gone are the days of the threat of nations stockpiling ICMB's to deter one another from catastrophic launches, and the last known war. With the threat …
Jan 11, 2021: The Edge Case: Redux For years now, businesses have migrated a full cloud solution; if not in the process of adopting a hybrid system at the very least. The continual …
Jan 7, 2021: The Rush to Public Over the course of 2020, the global IPO market was on fire. For these purposes, I'd like to focus on the United States market. The stock market …
Jan 4, 2021: Assessing U.S.-China Diplomatic Solution to North Korea Note: This piece was originally published at RealClear Defense on January 16, 2018. During the past year, The Trump Administration and the Kim Jong-Un …
Jan 4, 2021: Options for U.S. Sanctions Towards Russia for Aggression in Ukraine Note: This piece was first published on Divergent Options on April 17, 2017. National Security Situation: U.S. economic sanctions towards Russia …
Jun 24, 2017: Why I'm Taking a Year to Volunteer Life experiences make up the structure of a person. Choosing to give time and effort takes dedication and sweat equity. Some may choose to give …
Oct 13, 2016: Agile Methods Aren't Just for Startups The very definition of agile is the ability to move quickly, make changes, and adapt as needed to changing circumstances. Agile is a frequented term …