Saturday, December 19, 2020

Dr. Jill Biden

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 This is Joseph. There is a terrible article in the Wall Street Journal . See this excerpt below: The argument is a bit muddled, but it seem...
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Friday, December 18, 2020

Do professors still put New Yorker cartoons on their doors?

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                This is actually the origin of the phrase
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Thursday, December 17, 2020

"[Quibi] was bedeviled, from the beginning, by the very antiquated belief that in order for a startup business to succeed, it must actually succeed."

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More from  Albert Burneko's piece on the death of the born-terminal Quibi. In this section, Burneko takes one of those bizarre ideas we...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Working from home brings its own set of distractions

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Living in LA, I do most of my work from the patio. I generally have the area to myself with little but my short attention span to keep me fr...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Yes, IP matters

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 Albert Burneko (late of Deadspin) has a wonderfully snarky rant on the demise of Quibi. Quibi, the subscription digital streaming platform...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Noah Smith draws an essential distinction in the progress and innovation debate.

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Check out the recent post at Noahpinion on what Smith calls techno-optimism. I'm not sure I buy all of his arguments, but he makes some...
Friday, December 11, 2020

Rolling Stone: "Elon Musk is the Messiah" Vanity Fair:"Hold my beer"

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Admittedly, Nick Bilton's profile lacks the Christ imagery of that notorious Rolling Stone cover story, but in terms of buying into the...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Sir Arthur strikes back

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We've been talking for years now about why Arthur C. Clarke's often prescient speculations about the impact of telecommunications we...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Our annual Toys-for-Tots post (pandemic edition)

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[Obviously, safety comes first. If you can pick up these toys without making an extra trip, please do so, but if it's a choice of goin...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

So what is the business strategy now?

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This is Joseph. Uber is selling off its autonomous vehicle division . This does, however, bring up one important question -- namely, what is...
Monday, December 7, 2020

On the bright side, how much damage could one of the world's three richest men with the personality of a cult leader do?

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Cult is a dangerous term to throw around and it obviously doesn't apply in the narrow sense to Musk's followers, but there are some ...
Friday, December 4, 2020

Hyperloop stories really demand Gawker-level snark

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 Fortunately, Albert Burneko (late of Deadspin) is on the case . CNN’s article about this event   paraphrases a Virgin Hyperloop executive c...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

Perhaps not that unexpected

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Sidney Powell, who is greeted like a rockstar by the large crowd in Georgia, just now said she would “encourage Georgians to not vote...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

How to be a Tesla bull -- keep repeating EVs = Tesla

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  This is perhaps the primary pillar in all attempts to justify valuing a small, marginally profitable niche car maker at a larger market ca...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020

“[H]as the potential to cause some problems with GOP messaging.”

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Following up from last week's post . Just to be clear, these posts are making any predictions about any upcoming races. Instead, this ...