Elon Musk and Tesla: A Business Parable for Our Times
Everybody is Fallible, Lessons Can be Learned
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Tech Leaders
A collection of 113 issues
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
Why AI Scenarios Are More Important than Predictions
Love in the Age of the AI Tech-Bro Gigolo
Each day brings a new jolt, not from our planet’s shifting tectonic plates but from the disorientating sensation of becoming dislodged from what we previously perceived as objective reality.
Whenever I see anybody today proclaiming an unerring foreknowledge of what the future holds, I cannot resist a derisive snort.
As Planned, Nvidia’s GTC Offered No Surprises
Annihilation or Utopia? AI Likely to Land Somewhere Between the Two Extremes
A couple recent articles got my attention, and I thought I’d offer thoughts with which you might enthusiastically agree or vehemently disagree. Either reaction is acceptable. The only unacceptable reaction would be apathy and indifference. We’re here to think critically, not to sleepwalk.
The topic of AI is
Nvidia’s Results Were Good, But the Market is Full to Bursting
Tesla and the Fickle Magic of Sentiment
One challenge associated with expounding on events is having to choose from a multiplicity of subject matter. On any given day — today, for instance — I could take this vehicle and drive it in any of several directions.
But since I’ve invoked a driving metaphor, let’s go with Tesla’