When Momentum Fades and Exhaustion Looms
Momentum always flags and falters eventually. It’s only a question of when it will happen.
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Future
A collection of 112 issues
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.
Taking a Trip with Hallucinatory AI
I admit that I’m still struggling to get the hang of retirement. I’m officially retired – in that I no longer collect salaried remuneration from an employer for professional services rendered – but I’m not exactly living a superannuated life of leisure. No beach chairs, sun parasols, golf clubs,
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
AI Portents in Current Wave of Tech Layoffs
If we carefully monitor the job cuts in the technology sector, we will gradually gain more clarity on just how much AI will impact not just those businesses but, in the fullness of time (which is not that full amid the quickening pace of technological acceleration), all industries and organizations.
Promise and Peril: Railroads, Tech Stocks, and Otherworldly Executive Compensation
This is not an investment newsletter. I have neither the expertise nor the inclination to pose as an investment adviser. Like many people, I have no objection to money – I prefer having it to not having it – but I also prefer to spend the remainder of my days living life
On Intel’s Past, Present, and Future
Intel clung tenaciously to what made it great in an earlier era, and now it finds itself a diminished presence, struggling to regain lost dominance.
Food for Thought: Savoring a Feast of Networking Predictions
The impulse is irresistible, even though people invariably know it’s a fool’s errand. Yes, I’m alluding to the annual predictions that pundits and representatives of IT vendors issue every year in late December or early January. In my career as a market analyst, I was often compelled