This is my first time in New York, the city of my birth, in four years. Post-Covid (sort of) it is still a little frightening because it is always one crowd after the other. Pre-Covid I was not even aware of the crowds because I grew up among them and they didn’t matter. Now they have been converted to carriers of bugs. But I had to go back and see friends and family and, as I have now discovered, a city that I still hold dear even after more than 50 years.

Much of what we think of as the revolutionary culture of Web3 is a recycled version of the “penny stock” schemes that took place when I was growing up. Penny stocks were a replica of shares in public companies sold on the New York and American Stock Exchanges, only they…

I am disgusted. As you may know, I live in Arizona, which has always been a red state. For most of the past 50 years, my vote has been largely symbolic, as my chosen candidates hardly ever win. Arizona doesn’t like progressives, and I am one. However, I’ve accepted my…

For reasons everyone in the tech community can probably guess, the news that Google was shutting down Stadia, it’s browser-based streaming game service, reminded me that Google has previously shut down two services that were favorites of mine: Google Reader and Google Plus. Of the two, Reader was far and…

For all the excitement about Web3,0, it has so far been a mixed blessing. Just ask me, because I invested in it, leaned into it, followed it, and have become convinced timing is everything. While the small amount of money I lost in “crypto winter’’ (I saw it coming and…

It is the eve of the Jewish New Year, so I suppose it is fitting that I am watching Episode 3 of the amazing Ken Burns Documentary about the US and the Holocaust. Episode 3 takes place during my lifetime, and also during the time the vast majority of Europe’s…

No one believes in the rule of law more than I do. And no one believes more in the fact that Donald Trump is a grifter than I do. And yet, when the FBI swooped in to Mar-a-Lago looking for boxes of classified documents no one had more trepidation about…