: Quick Hit: Microsoft is Making Windows 11 Changes 💻 Microsoft recently announced that it intends to make Windows 11 more reliable, while removing …
: Don't Discount What Smaller Tech Firms Have to Offer 🧑💻 In a world quickly shaped by ‘big tech’, we often forget that they are not the only …
: MIT Tech Interview: Yann LeCun — LLMs Are Not Enough 🚀 Yann LeCun recently created AMI (Advanced Machine Intelligence) Labs. In an interview with MIT …
: World Book Day 2026: AI Snake Oil 📚 In honor of World Book Day, I’ll talk about my current read, “AI Snake Oil” by …
: Quick Hit: Warren Buffett's Final Quarter 🧭 Berkshire Hathaway just posted their last quarter’s results under the leadership of Warren …
: The Netflix-Paramount-Warner Brothers Saga has Ended 🎥 It is fascinating after Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos met at the White House with President Trump, …
: When CISA Falls by the Wayside ⚡ Critical infrastructure is just that — critical to the well-being and national security of a …
: Reflections on the Blizzard of 2026 Yesterday’s Blizzard of 2026 was a forced reminder to enhance and reevaluate my work-life …
: The Future of Xbox Can Tell Us About the Future of Gaming & GenAI 🎮 Xbox veteran Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are leaving Microsoft. This can tell us a lot about the …
: Use Your Public Library — A Case in Always Be Learning In the United States, we often take our public libraries for granted. The old days of going to a …
: Quick Hit: Merck and Moderna Skin Cancer Promising Developments 🧑⚕️ With health & science initiatives and funding under attack in the United States, it’s …
: Quick Hit: The Hidden Cost of the Ocean Economy and Climate Change 🌊By including ocean impacts like coastal destruction, the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) has added $2 …
: It's Google's Year and their Momentum to Lose In the area where LLM products are commodifying each other, it’s increasingly difficult for …
: Finished reading: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain 📚
: Leadership Isn’t Found in a Report—It’s Found in a Conversation I recently reflected on a powerful case study: a CEO who realized his monthly town halls were …
: The Complete Listing of my Readings Throughout 2025 After reading 35 books this year, on a diverse set of topics, I’ve learned a lot and blew away …
: Finished reading: Smart Brevity by Jim VandeHei 📚
: Finished reading: Prequel by Rachel Maddow 📚
: The Ultimate Management Feedback Case We all may be familiar with management reviews and feedback styles such as SMART and 360 Degree, but …
: Larger Wind Turbines Aren't a Bad Thing One of the largest obstacles to plentiful and abundant wind power is not creating them, but the …
: Commentary: My Thoughts on LinkedIn Headshots — AI and Whatnot I’m a huge believer in being authentic. Most employers and networkers want to see who YOU are, …
: The Dreaded Re-introduction Post Idea This (might be) my very last blog post of the year that was 2025. I've noticed a lot of new …
: Gartner's Agentic Browser Warning Agentic browsers are all the rage, even I've been writing about them as of late, but Gartner (Yes, …
: An (Almost) End to 2025 Update — 2026 Goals 🎊 As we approach the end of another year, as professionals, learners, and citizens of the world; we …
: Finished reading: Algospeak by Adam Aleksic 📚
: "I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed my Classroom, but Not for the Worse." - NYT Magazine 📰The New York Time Magazine published an interesting article on how adoption, not banning of chatbot …
: Electrification Makes the Superpower There is no question that the United States and China have now taken two completely different …
: Only the Paranoid Survive -- For Now Intel founder Andy Grove once said, “only the paranoid survive.” After two-decades of …
: 💡Great ideas are often overlooked because of self-doubt and obviousness. Preform market research …
: Signals are Flashing Red Alert for the Goods Economy - FreightWaves 🔔 It’s worth noting that AI is not the entire hashtag#economy. While that is the main focus …
: 🖥️ If you’re debating the utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) in your business or …
: Be Wary of Sycophantic Assistants -- The Next Platform Commoditization Breaker All chat platforms and LLM tools have become commodified tasked with creating as much lock-in as …
: The Learning Curve of Agentic Browsing With agentic browsers all the rage, it’s understandable that in these early days – …
: Finished reading: 107 Days by Kamala Harris 📚
: Finished reading: A Higher Loyalty by James Comey 📚
: The Electric Vehicle Imbalance: East vs. West As United States' EV tax credits have faded away into nothing, other regions such as the EU and …
: Apple Loses More Talent to GenAI Firms Apple continues an innovation brain drain with Siri, as Meta just recently hired Ke Yang to oversee …
: Quick Hit: ChatGPT Allows Third-Party Tie-Ins 🧑💻 Platforms and ecosystems are everything. LLM products are no different. OpenAI’s ChatGPT …
: You Don't Have to Write Constantly, Just Write Something Writing is one of the most important forms of communication next to verbal. The essence of the …
: The Infancy of Ecommerce Through Agentics Has Begun 🛍️ We are starting to see the beginnings of agentic ecommerce through OpenAI’s ChatGPT, …
: The Latest in Gaming Consolidation: Electronic Arts Yesterday, it was reported that a group of private equity investors including the Saudi Public …
: Finished reading: Something Lost, Something Gained by Hillary Rodham Clinton 📚
: Nvidia and Intel -- There's Only One Winner When considering Nvidia’s GPU and parallel computing dominance, it’s important to take a …
: Your Job Is Not Your Life -- Work on Finding Your Place Our jobs and careers do not define us, despite the first question many new contacts make, …
: ASML's Big GenAI Investment in Mistral Dutch semiconductor tooling supplier, ASML announced that the firm is investing $1.5 billion in the …
: Have My Agents Talk to Your Agents Last week, Atlassian, the SaaS company that owns such products as Jira, Confluence, and Trello …
: A Quick Note on "Apple in China" by Patrick McGee Finished reading: Apple in China by Patrick McGee 📚 📚 After reading “Apple in China” by …
: Finished reading: Magazine by Jeff Jarvis 📚
: WSJ Study on Career Skill Certificates Job skill certificates from the likes of Coursera or edX are exactly what you make of them. They are …
: Some Personal Reflections Going into My 38th Birthday 📅 When we begin our New Years Resolutions, most are lucky if we get through the first couple of …
: The Great Commodification of LLMs The price wars in LLMs have begun. This will lead to margin collapse in the industry, while …
: Finished reading: Zillow Talk by Spencer Rascoff 📚
: Finished reading: Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal 📚
: Finished reading: Electrify by Saul Griffith 📚
: MIT Technology Review Comment: Don't Ban ChatGPT in Education Like all new technologies in education, the initial response is to ban them. Consider Wikipedia, for …
: Finished reading: Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Yo… by Tiago Forte 📚
: Knowing Your Workflow for Note Taking 🔖 In my quest to become more knowledgeable in topics and subjects that are either relevant to me or …
: Finished reading: No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings 📚
: Making Siri Great Again If true, this Bloomberg report would be one of those rare instances that Apple would admit defeat …
: Finished reading: Desi Arnaz by Todd S Purdum 📚
: I Have LLMs Critique My Writings and Posts Continuing on the theme of LLMs enhancing your own work rather than replacing it. I had several …
: GenAI is Still Not Replacing You Back in 2023, when LLMs and GenAI was still in its infancy, I argued that GenAI will be a tool for …
: Finished reading: Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen 📚
: Finished reading: Quantum Supremacy by Michio Kaku 📚
: AI and Learning: There's a Major Disconnect Occurring in Education Just like with all industries and applications, the use of LLMs is literally rewriting all of the …
: Finished reading: AI Valley by Gary Rivlin 📚
: Google's Gemini will Contain Ads -- It's Only a Matter of Time It’s common knowledge that Google is an advertising company first and foremost. All of the …
: Article Recommendation: "Want to Use AI as a Career Coach? Use These Prompts." 🏫 Harvard Business Review published an excellent article on using LLMs (GenAI) as a career coach. 🧠 …
: The Real Danger of Misinterpreting AI Believing AI is sentient leads to false expectations—some may trust AI’s recommendations …
: Finished reading: Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe by Astrid Lorenz 📚
: Reading Update: The First Half of 2025 Below are some of the highlights of my readings for the first half of the year. As I’m always …
: Finished reading: Who Knew by Barry Diller 📚
: Navigating the Future: Why Mastering LLMs is Essential for Today's Students & Workers After reading this piece on CNBC’s website regarding how students should be using AI (I still …
: TechCrunch’s frequently updated “Cyber Glossary” is an essential resource for …
: “Business sentiment in Germany unexpectedly edged up in April, likely an endorsement from …
: Google & Meta Share a Common Antitrust Thread: Advertising Google and Meta have come under vast amounts of antitrust scrutiny over the past few years, …
: Finished reading: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari 📚
: 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 …
: Finished reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 📚
: Finished reading: Facts and Fears by James R. Clapper 📚
: 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 …
: Finished reading: America’s New Map by Thomas P.M. Barnett 📚
: Finished reading: Beneath a Surface by Brad Sams 📚
: Finished reading: Playing to the Edge by Michael V. Hayden 📚
: Finished reading: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚
: Finished reading: The Sirens' Call by Chris Hayes 📚
: 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 …
: Finished reading: The Gutenberg Parenthesis by Jeff Jarvis 📚
: Finished reading: From Cold War to Hot Peace by Michael McFaul 📚
: 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 …
: Finished reading: Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella 📚
: Finished reading: The Genesis Machine by Amy Webb 📚
: I completed reading “Play Nice” by Jason Schreier.
: Finished reading: Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum 📚
: 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 …
: Finished reading: The Big Nine by Amy Webb 📚
: One of my goals going into 2025 was to talk less and listen more. In this goal, I’m attempting …
: Finished reading: Chip War by Chris Miller 📚
: 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 …
: 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 …
: LLMs will Augment Employment; Not End it. LLMs, such as GPT-3.5 & 4 developed by OpenAI, possess impressive language processing capabilities. …
: Finished reading: Trailblazer by Marc Benioff 📚
: Divestiture Debrief: The Kellogg Split Earlier this morning before the bell, Kellogg announced that it would be splitting itself into …
: On this Day in 2001: The Robert Hanssen Case Yesterday, I was reminded on LinkedIn that yesterday in 2001, the State Department notified the …
: Apple's Newest Diversification: Business Essentials Much like your own investment portfolio, companies continually must diversify to negate the ebbs and …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: A Reminder of Intelligence Leadership and National Oversight As the Intelligence Community (IC) works to rebuild trust between its agencies, it's citizens, and …
: 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 …
: Arms Race in the Arctic Gone are the days of the threat of nations stockpiling ICMB's to deter one another from catastrophic …
: The Edge Case: Redux For years now, businesses have migrated a full cloud solution; if not in the process of adopting a …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: Why I'm Taking a Year to Volunteer Life experiences make up the structure of a person. Choosing to give time and effort takes …
: Finished reading: The Plot to Hack America by Malcolm Nance 📚
: 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 …