Don’t believe the news — San Francisco is a mess. At least the downtown and SoMa districts are. If you live in the Marina, Pac Heights, Castro, Dogpatch, or any neighborhood that isn’t the downtown doom strip, your life is fine. The nation and the world believes our city is forever doomed and will sink…

This is worse than 2016 — Joe Biden faces an almost impossible challenge. Despite his excellent performance — he is arguably the most accomplished and consequential US president of the last three decades — and despite his unique foreign policy wisdom, he does not enjoy full support from his own party, and is uniformly despised by…

I won’t be told what to do — I refuse to take sides in the middle east’s latest bout of horrendous violence. It seems that anyone who dares to speak out against Israel gets slammed with antisemite slander by the elite crew running the ‘liberal’ media. The problem is that these people are not liberal at all. They…

What Kara and the Elon haters have right and wrong about the mad king — Elon Musk is the world’s wealthiest, most talked about, and possibly both the most loved and most hated person. Kara Swisher is the queen of tech founder interviews, and a widely recognized public figure representing the progressive Democrat views on technology, business, iconic leaders and social issues. She hates Elon…

Take a walk with me — Time travel fuzzy screen…. where are we? Oh! We’re in San Francisco in 2023, but it’s another universe, one where the tech bubble didn’t happen. San Francisco is a beautiful, small-but-big city, surrounded by water and hills. It has no tech. It’s a place for stockbrokers, bankers, realtors, lawyers and…

The haters will love this — Washington DC is the United States Capital, and New York is the capital of many things — the arts, fashion, banking and finance, media, and more. Los Angeles is the capital of film and entertainment. …

How we’ve moved on from the news media’s doom-scroll narrative — You should tune into the prof g podcast, and listen to a talk by Scott Galloway on near term predictions for our economy and society. He is one of several modern day economist-philosophers helping us find meaning and opportunity in our confusing world. If you watch TV news, you are…

And a dozen other messages we need to deliver to San Francisco’s mayoral candidates — San Francisco is in a terrible mess. And at a crossroads, with a brilliant opportunity. Mayor London Breed has survived so far, and will probably avoid a recall between now and the mayoral election in 2024, but she will face a new type of opposition candidate in the field.

Some of them wishful… not all. We can all offer our predictions, no need to leave it to Time Magazine and CNN. What fun, to read these in a year and measure our Nostradamus qualities. …