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A collection of 67 issues

How to Distinguish Digital Public Squares from Royal Courts

I reminisced the other day about the golden age of Usenet. Admittedly, those days weren’t long in number, but they were good while they lasted. In the early 90s, I subscribed to a few Usenet forums (fora, if you insist), including a few related to my favorite bands, sports

Energy: Tech Constraint or Accelerant?

The technology industry is insular and self-absorbed. Its denizens and principal players often see themselves as singularly important, the ever-shining sun around which all other businesses and industries revolve. One could argue that there’s some justification for the tech industry’s bumptiousness. The Magnificent Seven have dominated stock-market gains

For Security Vendors, AI Brings New Twists to Old Narrative

This post is about cybersecurity, but I am going to begin proceedings with a relevant quote from a relatively obscure 1984 film called Flashpoint. No, this Flashpoint is not the Canadian police procedural television series of the same name, which wrapped up more than a decade ago; nor is it

Observing the Cautionary Tale of Silver Thursday

It’s now the evening of Good Friday. As it happens, yesterday was the 44th anniversary of Silver Thursday. You might ask: What is or was Silver Thursday? It’s a fair question. To the best of my knowledge, nobody celebrates or honors Silver Thursday; it simply stands as a

Bitcoin: FOMO Eclipsed by Fear of Whales

I have spent some time recently using genAI as a research tool. One area where I’ve tapped AI’s research facility involves cryptocurrency, especially bitcoin. I’ve never truly understood the bitcoin investment thesis, and I thought AI might be able to find and synthesize perspectives that offer a

When Momentum Fades and Exhaustion Looms

Momentum always flags and falters eventually. It’s only a question of when it will happen.

Going Underground: The Strange History of Tech Billionaires and Their Bunkers

The title of this post pays homage to Going Underground, a song released by mod rockers The Jam in 1980. Some of the song’s lyrics, if you view them ironically and from a skewed perspective – and I’m always up for that assignment – could reflect the current sentiments of

Thoughts on Cisco’s Isovalent Acquisition, Open-Source Motives, and the New Tech Austerity

It was inevitable that networking’s journey would become not only software-defined, not only software-driven, but reach an apotheosis of developer-driven software, period. With eBPF, networking and software merge seamlessly.

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