Why Berkeley Should Ban Natural Gas Hookups, Now
Update: On July 16, 2019, Berkeley became the first California city to ban natural gas in new buildings. I’m a businessperson.
Category: Global
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
Homelessness: A Reading List
Want to learn more about homelessness in the United States? I spent a couple of days trying to find the
Electric Cars’ Low Operating Costs, Confirmed
Finally some research is coming out about the real cost of owning electric cars – confirming that while they cost
My Dad’s Post-Election, Optimistic Poem
My dad wrote this poem shortly after Trump’s election. He was trying to process and think positive about a seemingly
Is It Possible To Prioritize The World’s Problems?
How do you prioritize solving the world’s problems? Can this even be done? Last night, I heard a guy speak,
Post-Election: What to Work on Now?
It took me a while after the election to come up with anything to say. The outcome didn’t surprise me,
Author Talks: White Anger, Defending Obama, and Mashed Potato Chemistry
U.C. Berkeley apparently has great visiting speakers. This past week I saw three provocative book authors on the Berkeley campus…
Divesting From Fossil Fuels
Today I went to a convocation ceremony at Williams College in Massachusetts, where the featured speaker encouraged students to do
Why Brexit is like Unplugging From an Operating System … Hard, and Probably Dumb
On the world stage, empires are becoming operating systems. That’s why voting to leave the EU, in favor of some
Open the Floodgates to IT Immigration
Below is the most controversial column I wrote for InfoWorld magazine in 2007 – plus two follow on columns –
Your Right to What Uncle Sam Knows
I wrote this article in 1989 for one of the first issues of PC Computing magazine, which started as a