A few weeks ago, I had a chance to converse with one my heroes, (philosopher, author, and journalist) Kevin Kelly and his partner in Cool Tools, Mark Frauenfelder, part of the Boing Boing crew. The… | Continue reading
San Francisco is a small town. Stand still long enough and you are likely to bump into a billionaire or two, standing in line for a coffee. Or simply sitting in the lobby of a hotel like Brian Ches… | Continue reading
From time to time, I try and go offline and take a break from the internet. Instead of going offline, I am going to be off social media for a few days. My Instagram usage has already dropped down d… | Continue reading
Over the past few weeks, the world has been talking about folding smartphones. Bigger screens, thicker devices, and $2,000 price tags have not deterred the excitement around these new devices. Ther… | Continue reading
The threat to America is this: we have abandoned our core philosophy. Our first principle of this nation as a meritocracy, a free-market economy, where competition drives economic decision-making. … | Continue reading
Nostalgia has come to the Internet, and it is too little, too late. Nostalgia is not what defines the future. Sub-10 year-olds won’t give a damn about the nostalgia-Internet. Unfortunately, t… | Continue reading
“We definitely don’t want a society where there’s a camera in everyone’s living room watching the content of those conversations.” Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook, whose company se… | Continue reading
Just as slow food is good for digestion, and thus the body, slow tech is good for the soul. Today, most of my life is digital and connected. It is not a surprise that I find joy in the time-slowing… | Continue reading
This selections are from weekly newsletter, that is shared with subscribers over the weekend. “It doesn’t matter how many people hate your brand as long as enough people love it.” Phil Knight, Nike… | Continue reading
A few months back, when visiting Portland, Maine, I got a chance to spend time with Rebecca Lily and Johnny Patience, two talented photographers and visual artists. They have eschewed the obvious a… | Continue reading
This past weekend, I visited Yosemite National Park, California to officiate the wedding of my friend Tim and his bride, Lauren. The wedding ceremony was held outside in a snow-covered meadow. I ha… | Continue reading
06.05 AM: Why did Amazon buy Eero? Because every smart home needs good wifi, writes Stacey Higginbotham. 06.00 AM: A Twitter thread of unpopular opinions about climate policy and the GreenNewDeal b… | Continue reading
Kevin Rose is someone I’ve known for quite a while. I think it was 11 years ago we first worked together when he was starting out as an intern. The promise I saw in him at that time has undoubtedly… | Continue reading
12.09 PM: “Turning free samples into new targeted ads plays to Amazon’s strength as a trusted delivery service of everyday goods.” Axios. If you are Google, you need to be very wo… | Continue reading
I am one of the 29 million Americans who is afflicted Type 2 Diabetes. And like most (if not all), for past 12 years, I have been living with a constant ritual of pricking my fingers with a sm… | Continue reading
8:17 AM: TechCrunch should hire my friend Julie Zerbo, who is an amazing investigative fashion writer and should be an exciting person to tackle the “direct to consumer” brand boom in a non-sycopha… | Continue reading
Twitter, yesterday, was lit up with charges of plagiarism against Jill Abramson, former editor in chief of The New York Times. She has a new book about media — actually, a book complaining about te… | Continue reading
Twitter, yesterday, was lit up with charges of plagiarism against Jill Abramson, former editor in chief of The New York Times. She has a new book about media — actually, a book complaining about te… | Continue reading
A recurring nightmare was my wake up call today. It is as if my mind puts out red alerts in the form of a horror flick—wake up and get to work. And since 2 am, I have been doing that, slowly typing… | Continue reading
Given its dominance of the e-commerce and cloud services, Amazon, not surprisingly, had a great fourth quarter of 2018. I was checking out their earnings release this morning, and one thing that st… | Continue reading
There were too many of us doing the same job. When I started reporting in 2006 on fresh new companies like Facebook and Twitter, it was a novelty beat that sometimes came across to my senior collea… | Continue reading
Here are five articles I read this week that I think are worth your time. Musk versus Bezos: The Battle of Space Billionaires. If you look beyond the headline, then you get a pretty good understand… | Continue reading
No matter what Jack Dorsey (CEO, Twitter) says, he is going to come under criticism. While some of it is justified, but a lot of hyperventilation in the media is because the press is in compensator… | Continue reading
Five years is a long time, so it isn’t a surprise that Ello might have faded from the minds of the people. And after being an initial skeptic, I have quietly become an occasional visitor R… | Continue reading
Everyone focuses on their mission. So many focus on their tagline as a way to define themselves. A very few companies think about themselves from the vantage point of values. When it comes to busin… | Continue reading
It is raining outside. I can hear its soft patter outside my window. I like rains. They make me nostalgic, especially on a Sunday, my day for catching up with the week ahead. Past few days have bee… | Continue reading
Here are some good early morning reads worth your time. How is it that identical twins are getting many different results from five ancestry DNA test kits? The answer might be in the algorithms tha… | Continue reading
After a bit of a hiatus, I am back with a new episode of my occasional podcast series, The Om Show. In this first episode for 2019, I chat with Primer CEO Sean Gourley and MetaMarkets founder Micha… | Continue reading
Sade, has been part of the soundtrack of my grownup life and at every significant moment, there has been a song of hers in the background. She turned sixty today, but she is timeless, and so is her… | Continue reading
A 3.7 magnitude earthquake shook my apartment building hard, woke me up and just like that I ended up making coffee and getting on the Internet. And long before you know it, I was watching a video … | Continue reading
Did you know that Google+ is shutting down? I hadn’t, and frankly, I don’t care, because I had stopped thinking about Google+ a long time ago. But Gideon Rosenblatt, who worked on Googl… | Continue reading
Founders work hard to turn their dreams into reality. Sometimes, success — or at least other people’s idea of your success — looks so close that you can taste the spoils. Happy en… | Continue reading
Chad Dickerson, formerly an executive at Yahoo and later CTO/CEO of Etsy, in a powerful piece shares his story and elaborates why flat data in online databases doesn’t truly define us —… | Continue reading
The Consumer Electronics Show 2019 (CES 2019) is finally over, and most reports indicate that it was a bit of a damp squib. The show comes against the backdrop of an Appleocalypse and a sharp slowd… | Continue reading
It is an astonishing story about how China is playing a villainous role in the non-Chinese Internet. The writers point to a new tool called the Great Cannon and how it helped “channeling the… | Continue reading
One of the hard realities of having a major medical event in your life is that you are never out of its shadow. Almost a dozen years since doctors took care of my heart problems, I have to go in ev… | Continue reading
The teenager I met a long time ago is now in his mid-thirties. And I couldn’t be more proud of Matt for evolving and becoming a man, with clear ideas, strict values and appreciation for frien… | Continue reading
There seems to be television and video everywhere. And that’s why finding the good stuff is getting harder and harder — and I mean “must see TV” or “worth my attention… | Continue reading
I have such an old fashioned view of marriage, or maybe I am a hopeless romantic to believe in “ever forever together.” (By the way, my old fashioned ideas — they are a result of being the son of a… | Continue reading
Taylor Lorenz has written a wonderful piece on why we should give up trying to tame the email problem. Good point — people send more email if you reply to their email anyway. So to hell with … | Continue reading
One of the better, apolitical Twitter threads explaining Paul Manafort’s crime when meeting with the Russians. He breaks it down like an ad-guy who works with big brands. I don’t want t… | Continue reading
Having retired from technology journalism and never having to cover the CES trade show will always remain my singular most cherished professional victory. It is as pointless (from a news perspectiv… | Continue reading
Harold T. Martin, an NSA contractor, was turned into NSA by Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab. He had stolen many terabytes of data and brought it home. A few months later the USA issued warnings against … | Continue reading
Google says its “Assistant” (the voice-based query service) is soon going to be on a billion devices –primarily phones, and a majority of them being on the Android phones. There a… | Continue reading
Ari Levy has come up with an old-fashioned and often gone missing style of corporate leader profile of Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff. If there is any criticism of this piece — there is t… | Continue reading
After reading this story, Ambrosia, which claims that blood of the young people is a miracle treatment, seems a bit of flim-flam. My takeaway from the story is that we as humans are obsessed with l… | Continue reading
Link-sharing was and remains one of the primary aspects of blogging, though we have given up on link-sharing on our homesteads in favor of Facebook and Twitter. As I start to spend more time on my … | Continue reading
We have become so accustomed to our leaders — political and corporate — lying to us, that when someone actually shares the facts, we choose to overlook them, instead of trying to read b… | Continue reading