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. …

Snatched from the jaws of victory — I’m a Democrat. Or I was, until around 2015 when I began losing faith in the anti-Trump movement and the blue party’s reaction to the groundswell of populist pro-dictator support. I was re-energized when Biden began — with our active and hearty support — beating out the more progressive presidential…

Love and death in the time of Covid — It’s October 2022 and my life feels serene, happy and exciting in most ways. Nevertheless, I feel a heavy sense of emptiness, almost meaninglessness, and I’m a little numb. Here’s what happened since May 2019 that completely reshaped my world, leaving me in some ways a better man, and in…

Telling on myself, hoping to help someone — I’m in a world of pain, since my beautiful and devastatingly smart and kind and funny partner ended our relationship. I’ll offer some thoughts on our journey, my journey, and online dating, in the hope that some of this may be helpful to someone. Backdrop I lost my beautiful wife last…

Don’t give it away. Kill it. — Your Ring camera is helping you sleep at night, dutifully catching thieves, vandals, burglars and maybe even an occasional raccoon or squirrel terrorizing your front porch. Congratulations! However, did you know that your Ring camera is yet another scheme by Jeff Bezos and Amazon to promote white supremacy at the…