Why I Don’t Live In San Francisco

It’s not so much the idiotic rents, it’s that toxic cloud of smug…

Only Disrupt

Isn’t it time to retire that idiotic, strutting, smug, self-satisfied word “disrupt” and its derivatives like “disruptive”?

Learning From Los Angeles

A reminder of the difference between fun and irony.

Hitting All The Hot Buttons

As an Anglo-Australian visitor or immigrant to the United States, you quickly learn that there are several…

I Ro NY

Years ago when I was still new to California, I’d sit in tech meetings and occasionally make a poker-faced suggestion or response that seemed —…

Baby We Were Born To Drive

Back in our formative proto-Punk days in inner-city Sydney, we read a breathless article or two in NME or Melody…

On Demand

The on demand economy… whose demand? The 5%’s.

The Age Of Outrage

The dominant mode of expression in the Internet Age seems to be outrage. This isn’t an original observation, I’m sure, but…