Last week a former president of the United States was found liable for sexual assault and defamation. I’m sure you already know that the assaulter was Donald Trump, the likely Republican nominee for President in 2024. The assaultee, E. Jean Carroll, is a couple of years my junior (who isn’t?)…

In all my years of trying to encourage the use of technology to improve both business and life, I have come across three apparently intractable industries. [ I’m sure there are more, but I didn’t work with them.] The first, real estate development, did not seem to need technology because…

For the past three years, I’ve been spending at least an hour a week nourishing an online community called Karma Club that started right at the beginning of the pandemic. It now has grown to about 12,000 members. The community lives on an app called Clubhouse that launched in March…

My daughter Amanda was driving her two younger children, ages 9 and 10 to school in Paradise Valley Arizona last week. She lives to the west of the school, and was driving east on a main neighborhood road. To get to the street the school is on, she had to…

Well, I was going to write this week about world crises, but it was difficult to pick one of the competing priorities, so instead I will tell you about the value in shifting your perspective. My family reminds each other to do that so often that it’s almost as if…

If you have never had back pain, you may think it is a simple thing.Your back hurts and you lay down on a heating pad. But in my case it’s really complex, because I have a pinched nerve that causes wandering pain far from the original site. In other words…

Last week I woke up and couldn’t put any weight on my left leg. It was incredibly painful, especially for a person who had previously been able to walk four miles. At the time I thought I might have broken a hip.Turns out I have a nerve impingement in my…

So you didn’t like Backpage because you thought it was involved in human trafficking? Well, you were wrong. But because you got your information from Cindy McCain and the federal government, you got what is now known as “fake news.” First, Backpage was never involved in human trafficking. Backpage has…

Railroads have been in the news for the first time in a long time due to what happened in East Palestine, Ohio. But they should have been there quite a while before, because they are a legacy technology that has been largely bought up by private equity companies who are…