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A collection of 9 issues
Amid the Anxious Nvidia Earnings Watch: Losing the Plot, Misreading Market Dynamics
I sometimes wonder whether COVID and its aftermath have unmoored us from what we used to collectively apprehend as our common reality.
Take, for example, the intense media coverage of Nvidia’s quarterly results, which are not due until close of market trade today. Journalists and market watchers are behaving
Cisco Can't Party Like It’s 1999, but the End is Not Near
Twitter’s Role in Strengthening Musk’s Grip on Tesla
Years ago, when I worked for a technology company that developed and sold infrastructure software (an intentionally ambiguous description to protect the guilty and the innocent), I had a colleague who espoused a refreshingly frank worldview. He believed that the decisions of our board and senior executives could be attributed
An Unconventional Approach to Investing Amid Mega-Cap Market Dominance
Presenting a Tapas Menu of Recent Tech News
Each week, we’re swamped by events and information. It’s hard to keep up. We do our best to remain apprised of what matters to us, but relevant developments can evade the notice of even the most diligent observer.
What follows are news items that caught my attention but
Market Frenzy Pressures AI Engineers to Burnout and Despair
You may have heard that we’re in the midst of an AI market frenzy. You might choose to call it an AI gold rush, or, if you’re less favorably disposed, an AI mania. Whatever you choose to call what’s happening today, I think we can all agree
The Evolution and Future of the Celebrity CEO
I had an epiphany – though you can decide whether I was beguiled by a mirage – while reading a recent Wall Street Journal article that explored China’s penchant for CEOs to double as entertainers.
According to the article, the rise of the entertaining CEO derives from the hierarchical and regimented
The Accelerating Drive To AI Consolidation
By its very nature – technologically complex, resource intensive, often prohibitively costly to deploy and operate at volume and scale – AI is likely to host a rapidly thinning field of vendors and relatively early market consolidation.