We Lived Comfortably During the Pandemic And when they fired millions without healthcare, and refused to take care of our medical workers, while lying to our faces, and sacrificing countless lives in a shameless money grab, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in…

In Product Management there’s a technique called the 5 Whys which is used to get to heart of issues. For instance, if your website goes down, you might ask: Why did the website go down? Because too many people went at once. Why can’t our website handle that sort of…

In the past, I’ve produced and directed a few shows, from my high school’s TV program, to live news and sports shows, to interview series. …

Recently, Facebook announced the demise of M, a chatbot assistant that once promised to be the future of conversational interfaces. First introduced in a limited public beta in August of 2015, the service was free to use and featured nearly limitless offerings. M’s use of a human-trained AI allowed it…

With the ascent of the smartphone into our every waking hour, a generation is growing up so plugged in that their social lives are suffering. So we watched as an array of dating applications emerged to facilitate interaction. The issue with platforms like Tinder is a superficiality which ignores a…

I wrote this many years ago, and recently learned that the subject of this piece has sold his company for a large profit. So, I dug this up, and decided to post it. Images added in 2017. In what looks like an old abandoned factory in Cumberland, RI lies a…

I listened to my first podcast on an actual iPod, back when Apple still made them. In those early days, the lineup included Marketplace, News from Lake Wobegon, and The Apple Phone Show (this was before the iPhone was announced). …

Ten years later, I’m still an RSS feed junkie. Twitter has the same effect – a constant stream of information to guzzle that might just be feeding a “primitive behavioral instinct”. One side effect of my preference for news streams is the backlog of saved-for-later articles that is currently hovering…

A list of this year’s recipes, mostly preserved for my eventual grandkids. Stars for the best of the best. Sweets Almond Cornbread* Angel Food Cake Banana Nut Bread* Biscotti Brownies Caramels Chocolate Babka Buns Chocolate Cake Chocolate Chip Cookies Chocolate Cookies Chocolate Sorbet Coconut Macaroons Coffee Cake Flan Fruit Tatin Lemon Sorbet Lemon Glazed Cookies Madeleines* Marshmallows Molasses Cookies