Enough. The right has been taken over by degenerates who actually want civil war and would like to destroy democracy and civilization, to replace it with authoritarian rule and white race strongman culture.

That doesn’t mean that our only available response is a far left complainathon that offers no solutions but an endless stream of accusations and attacks against our core identity.

Medium is full of them. Here they are more elaborate and more verbose and even more disaster-thinking than on The Atlantic, Salon and Huff Post. We’ve built a hub for them to chorus their negativity and doomsday messaging.

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We are being played. Our personal emotions and instinctive reactions have been weaponized against us by the political class.

Politics is in poor shape in 2021, even if America is in pretty good shape — considering the sandstorm she has just been through. Our political landscape is distorted by social media and digital news media colluding to create a social disease (please watch The Social Dilemma if you haven’t already). We have succumbed to dumb groupthink on both ends of the spectrum, and we have become binary simpletons trying to assess a complex multidimensional array of forces interacting in our…

Aren't we tired of this tribal divisiveness yet?

I don't want to spend my one life on this planet hating conservatives, white people, christians or any other people. I want a color blind society where it doesn't matter where you come from or what color your skin is. I want a an America that signs the infrastructure bill into law, then the green new deal, and makes ure that both of these are egalitarian, helping all people, not just white people as we did in the 60's.

I believe MLK wanted a color blind America, not a hate-the-white-folks America.

I immigrated to America in 1993. I had a great job, working for a Silicon Valley company in its European hub in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Early in my career I was flexible and willing to go on adventures. I left the greatest country in the world (Switzerland) to go live in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, the greatest place on earth.

Since moving to America I have paid $3.9M in taxes. I have had a lovely career and am still working, trying to do something awesome because I am toxically allergic to the idea of doing something mediocre. I have founded…

I don’t like monopolies. And I don’t like rigged or closed markets. Because we all lose. I hated Microsoft in the 1990’s because it owned all of the work computer and half of the home computer universes. With a shitty product, horrible service, dog slow innovation, and we had nowhere else to go.

I’m sad that Facebook is so powerful. I haven’t been able to remove it from my life, though I have deleted their apps and reduced my daily presence to a couple of minutes. Its power and its presence are like crack to a crack addict. …

Great article, thank you for the historical perspective and the deeply personal experience with a local company that had been a global wonder.

I think you're too kind to private equity and the pitfalls of allowing a distressed business to be 'helped' by a PE firm.

Blackstone is no exception. Jim Continenza is a blustery, powerbroking, politically savvy private equity partner who has made a career of buying struggling businesses and inserting himself as chairman and CEO in order to help the navigate back to financial health. This plan only succeeds about half of the time, and even then, success…

We experienced a corrupt president attacking democracy, his adversaries, the truth and science. We survived a thinly veiled attempt at a presidential coup. We sheltered in place and watched helplessly as the world coped with the worst pandemic since 1918. We lost loved ones and were unable to hold funerals. Weddings were canceled or postponed. We watched half our population fall prey to misinformation and were unable to help them see what was happening to them. We despaired as media channels calcified their tribal warfare and profited from the emotional tug that social media and digital news media manufactures while…

Great stuff Tim - I have taken the off-ramp in my career and left safe jobs to pursue dreams. I have experienced both the elation of building something successful from scratch, and the fear and emptiness of waking up with no income, no money, a failed company and a bleak future, feeling that people are laughing at me.

Things to remember: 1) it doesn't matter who is laughing at me, because who still believes in me is what matters; 2) success is an accumulation of failures, and the lessons they bring; 3) and you said it in your article: it's better to have tried than to live with the regret of not trying.