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Brad Casemore

Brad Casemore is a former technology market analyst and an IT-industry veteran. After approximately 35 years of mostly gainful employment, he is now retired from the daily grind.

An Explanation: How I Got Here

I’m gearing up for a three-post week beginning on Tuesday. Several narrative possibilities were percolating in the roiling cauldron of my mind, and three have risen to the surface for further development. Before then, however, I thought an exposition of a personal nature might be helpful for readers. As

From Rockefeller and Carnegie to Musk and Zuckerberg: The Evolution of the Public Billionaire

The world’s first confirmed billionaire was fossil-fuel magnate John D. Rockefeller, who reached that rarefied height of stupefying wealth in 1918. Back then, Rockefeller’s billionaire status took him a long way. In 1913, his personal wealth reportedly accounted for about three percent of the USA’s GDP. As

Technology Moonshots Meet the Pull of Earthly Gravity

Many of you are familiar with the Open Systems Interconnection model (OSI model). You know it as a conceptual model, offered by the International Organization for Standardization, designed to provide a well-understood, common basis for coordinated standards development relating to computer-systems interconnection. The OSI model is like an ascending seven-layer

Greetings: And So It Begins . . .

This site, along with its accompanying newsletter, is new. What you’re reading now is the inaugural post, meant to provide an introduction to your gracious host (that’s me) and to offer a rough guide as to what you might expect to find here in the days, weeks, and

Coming soon

This is Crepuscular Circus, a new site by Brad Casemore. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content is published!