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I would like your help changing the tech industry.
I joined the tech industry in 1997, after years in the high school computer lab and running a BBS from home. The tech industry I joined was fairly distributed. I had a local dial-up ISP account that offered free web hosting and e-mail, and then jumped ship to a DSL provider that allowed me to […]
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A Necessary Return Of Locally Managed Technology
I first joined the tech industry in a different era. I graduated high school in 1995. I worked retail until 1997, when I started my first job as a member of an outsourced helpdesk. By 1999, I had joined at the ground floor at an MIT startup, and stayed until it became a billion dollar […]
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Creating a Distributed Tech Industry
Computers have been a major part of my life since I started calling dial-up bulletin board systems (BBS) in the late 1980s, when I was far too young. By the early 1990s I was running one instead. By the end of the decade, I was in at the ground floor of an MIT startup, where […]
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Shifting The Focus Of The Tech Industry
I first joined the tech industry in 1997. I had gone from high school graduate to retail associate to remote help desk worker for a major investment banking firm. After a childhood obsession with computers, the job came easy to me. Given the timing within the industry, two years later I landed a role in […]
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The Problem With Our Economy
we are in the wakeof a great shifting awaken you better free your mindbefore they illegalize thought there’s a war going on the first casualty was truthand it’s inside you the universe is counting on our beliefthat faith is more powerful than fearand in that the shifting momentwe’ll all remember why we’re here — Climbing […]
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Mantra
“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions. The things in our control are by nature […]
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Whaddya mean, no inches?
Complex reasons for this kind of disaster can be elaborated at length by experts on banking and high finance who cannot see the forest for the trees, But it was just as if someone had come to work on building a house and, on the morning of the Depression, the boss had said, “Sorry, baby, […]
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To Disassemble Amazon, Cut Here
Over time, Amazon has become a vertical monopoly, like Standard Oil. Vertical Integration is an extremely powerful force for reducing costs, to the point where competing against a company like that becomes harder and harder until the company is either broken up, or someone manages to attack it effectively. Amazon can be viewed in a series […]
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- I would like your help changing the tech industry.
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