Tech Needs to Take a Stronger Stand Against Senseless Mercantilism
Nvidia’s Huang belatedly right about counterproductive export controls
Topic
CEOs
A collection of 45 issues
On Longevity, Quarterly Results, and Tech Layoffs
From Aspirationally Peaks to Mundane Valleys
Let’s Face It: Even the Irreplaceable are Replaceable
If Everybody is Replaceable, Nobody Can be Irreplaceable
The Complicated Relationship Between Technology and Luddites
Learning from the Past While Looking to the Future
Elon Musk and Tesla: A Business Parable for Our Times
Everybody is Fallible, Lessons Can be Learned
Nvidia’s China Problem: Tariff Mayhem Aggravates Matters
It's Never Easy
When CEO and Company Are Synonymous, Risks Can Overshadow Rewards
Like an auteur of the 1960s and 1970s, I feel compelled to revisit certain themes, not so much to repeat them as to explore them further.
An early composition on this forum dealt with the evolving behavior of ultra-rich industrialists. In the age of the Robber Barons, the obscenely wealthy
Dignity in the Time of the Toads
In what follows, I’m going to use parable to make my point because I want to focus on principle rather than individual personalities. Okay, with that brief preface out of the way, let’s begin.
What is obsequiousness good for? It doesn’t seem to have much utility. In