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April 15, 2019 Business

Flashback To A Very Young Netflix, Climbing The Wall of Worry

Check out the first five Netflix annual reports (2002-2007), which for some reason I saved and have now scanned: 2002

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February 5, 2019 Business

Notes From The Day Larry And Sergei Pitched Us On Google

This morning I found the notes from my memorable early-1999 meeting with Google’s Larry Page and Sergei Brin.  I was

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April 17, 2018 Business / Journalism

What’s Holding Back The New York Times?

Why does The New York Times only have two million digital subscribers, when there are two billion smartphone users on

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January 9, 2018 Business

Deflation Is Tightening Its Grip On Us All

Why so many people are feeling squeezed. What’s the United States’ biggest export? iPhones? Airplanes? Nope – it’s deflation. For

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April 14, 2017 Business / Quizlet

Caught Secretly Doing the Right Thing

The above security camera photo shows members of the Quizlet team hustling patio furniture inside to protect it from a

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April 12, 2017 Business

The Power of Unlocking Alternative Solutions

I spent today working on some home-improvement projects, mostly involving locks and metal fitting of various types. At one point

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April 3, 2017 Business

What I Learned From My Swim Goggles Today

What you’ve always believed is true, may not be true. This morning the strap on my swim goggles broke right

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April 2, 2017 Business / Vintage

Cobalt Blue Sign From the Dawn of Global Banking

I bought this sign at the Alameda antiques market after noticing it a few months in a row. I’m into

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February 4, 2017 Business / Education / Quizlet

Words to Work By, Revisited

Just came across this list I wrote for the Quizlet company handbook in 2010. I was trying to convey some of

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October 20, 2016 Business / Education

How Pilates Got Huge: It Went Open Source

If you want to start a trend that goes from obscure to ubiquitous seemingly overnight, open it up wide. Case

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October 2, 2016 Business

The Fully Automated Future is Still Mostly Hype

Just did a quick loop through the Berkeley Campus to buy some books at Moe’s and came across two things I hadn’t

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August 3, 2013 Business / Journalism

The Asteroid That Smashed the Newspaper Industry

I woke up this weekend to the news The Times had finally sold off The Boston Globe to a local

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April 27, 2006 Business

CIO Panel Discussions at the Churchill Club

From 2002 to 2007 I moderated dozens of roundtable discussions with corporate CIOs (Chief Information Officers) and other executives on

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May 1, 2003 Business / Fun

Cell Towers in Church Steeples

This article was originally published in the New York Times in 2003, as part of a  series I did for their ‘Circuits’

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January 17, 2002 Business

The Future of ATMs

This article was originally published in the New York Times in 2002, as part of a series I did for their ‘Circuits’

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