Answering Zuckerberg’s Call for Masculine Energy Mark Zuckerberg says we need more “masculine energy” in today’s corporate culture, which presumably includes the tech industry to which he belongs. I’m now retired, but even so, I question whether I’m doing my part for the cause of corporate machismo. I sense that I am at
A Strange Brush with Tech-Industry Ageism I have been strafed by a cold, or a flu, or by some other unwelcome invader. I suppose it’s the season for such maladies. On the bright side, I’d rather play host to the nasties now, if I’m going to have them at all, than during the
A Personal Note About a year ago, a little more than a year into my retirement, I had a conversation about how to go about retiring with a former colleague, who was still employed at the time. We arranged the call on LinkedIn and I took it while I was on one of
Retirement: Don’t Believe the Stereotype At the end of June, I will have been nominally retired for exactly one year. I’ve used the word nominally with considerable care, though I just as easily and accurately might have invoked the word ostensibly. What do I mean when I introduce these qualifiers? Well, people ask me