Not sure Intel will survive the next 5-10 years. But they definitely won’t without leadership that pushes for new, aspirational products vs. crouching into a defensive posture.

They desperately need moonshot leaders and stories.

This must be Pig Will.

Pig Won’t will be another story I’d love to see.

Management is on 1034.

Saw Halloween costume put up for sale, in mid-July. At this point, expecting frozen Turkeys to show up soon.

Home Alone.

Ubasute (elder senicide): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasute

Green Jello or Apple Sauce cup?

It’s taken me five years to convince my wife to use a password manager. It almost landed us in couple’s counseling.

I’ve just given up on my 80-yo mom. No amount of therapy could fix my PTSD by the time I convinced her to use one.

Read that as “bosses” and started thinking about the TV show. 🤦🏻‍♂️

If a product makes money on engagement metrics (ads, eyeballs, time), they’ll do everything they can do to maximize for that.

The slot machine analogy is apt. There’s research out there on how much time to optimize the dopamine hit and how long to go before you dispense the hit.

The trick is, as a consumer, to set limits and step away. Considering we’re here, best of luck to us all.

Truth in advertising. Just call it “Meat Crayon (maker).”

The one guy hand-soldering and fumes with no PPE or vent 😱

Always-on would be distracting. Be more practical if it had an on/off switch. At least a dimmer.

Take CERT classes. I dare you NOT to run out afterward and buy multiple fire extinguishers.

It was just sitting there.

Data centers and enterprise. They’re getting smoked there by AMD and custom training/inference chips.

I used to literally throw bad books at the wall.

In the digital or audiobook world I have to hit “finish” then “delete” then “archive” then “remove from library.”

The old way was much more cathartic.

Louis Button