Privilege, football and fifth downs.

It’s great to talk about privilege, but the question is would you take a hit for fairness? Would you sacrifice your privilege.

The contrast can be illustrated between two similar mistakes that happened in collegiate football in 1940 and 1990. The situation in both…

Winter is coming, nix that winter is here….

“Winter is coming…” a phrase so etched in the collective conscious that the current pandemic illustrates that in our media saturated world that we consume content and it passes through our system with nary a nutritional benefit. In one ear and out the other. While I did not watch…

Goodbye to all that (HealthTech) (with thanks to Joan Didion)

*** This is a public draft to seek comments from reviewers ***

It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends. I can remember now, with a clarity that makes the nerves in the back of my neck constrict, when consumer…

Today I saw a story on Vice about the difficulty of finding drivers for old hardware on old operating systems. Coincidentally earlier in the week on Tidbits the story was about hardware that stopped being supported by the vendor when a new…

In my career, I tend to have found a good leading indicator of bad management and that tends to be trash talking your competitors. There are great stories about where trash talking one day leads to eating crow the next. Perhaps the most famous is between Michael Dell and Steve…