It sure seems like 2019 is the year things get very real for the technology industry. Whether its the weaponization of platforms like Facebook and Twitter, or the digital security breaches that seem to all too commonplace — Once again, here’s a tip from Uncle… Read More »Tech’s Legal Bills About to Go Way Up in 2019 with Mike Swift
Book titles can be a lot of things: tantalizing, funny and punny, cryptic … and sometimes a book titles is just perfectly placed aside its content. The book is “Undaunted” and it is the true-life story of being left for dead after five bullet wounds,… Read More »From Jonestown Massacre to #MeToo: Undaunted with Jackie Speier
I hope you’re feeling strong to start the new year. I mean, with some energy and some goals. Personally, I hope to reverse decades of behavior merely because it’s January. I know, it’s not easy keeping a high levels of focus for the long haul… Read More »Being A Badass Financially … Like, Every Day with Jen Sincero
Sure, it’s not our usual fare, but there’s a quote we saw on Twitter that got us thinking as we close out 2018: “Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by travel.” And then, bang, National Geographic Travel drops its expert list of… Read More »Travel List from NatGeo Tantalizes for 2019 with George Stone
This podcast is, admittedly, a bit beyond the brief of this show. It’s about the so-called golden age of Hollywood during the time that Howard Hughes held a great amount of power and sway. I rationalized including it because first, it is a well-researched, fair… Read More »Howard Hughes to Harvey Weinstein: How We Finally Got to #MeToo with Karina Longworth
We try to cover the spectrum of opinion on the impending and growing use of artificial intelligence. This week we’re adding gene editing to that conversation. And we’re doing it with a science fiction writer and multi- best selling author. The gene editing tool, known… Read More »Science Fiction as Human Lens for New Health, Appearance Technology with Arwen Elys Dayton
It’s mid-December – dipping temperatures, holiday shopping – and two months until pitchers and catchers report for MLB’s spring training. Baseball fans call it the Hot Stove season. It’s when teams retool their rosters for the coming baseball season. It’s when trades are made and… Read More »Fight Offseason Blues with Rob Neyer
When it comes to Silicon Valley and the modern way we use new technology, it’s more than a little helpful to ask: How did we get here? We’ve had the internet for about 50 years. The world wide web for ~30 years. This week on… Read More »How Did We End Up with the Internet We Have? with Brian McCullough
There are book blurbs, and then there are book blurbs. Here are a few of the blurb-authors who are featured on John Chambers’ first book, “Connecting the Dots”: – JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon – Other Silicon Valley Legend Meg Whitman – Former Secretary… Read More »Silicon Valley Legend Offers First Leadership Book with John Chambers
Let’s say you wanted to build a high rise apartment building. Say this project is in a foreign country. And you need some help clearing the paperwork and red tape. Now, there are two ways to look at the offer of gifting a fifty million… Read More »A Culture of Corporate Kickbacks, Graft with David Montero
