Reed Harrison

This is one serious ass book.  It will scare the hell out of you … or should.   As best I can tell, it is well-researched, relies on real experts, and is factually accurate.  It’s a page turner.  Credit to friend, salt-of-the-earth AT&T colleague, and CFO wunderkind Rich Lee for discovering and recommending it.  The format […]

So I’m reading Harari’s latest, Homo Deus, and I come across one of these mind-blowing fun facts.  62 Billionaires own the same wealth as the bottom 50% of the entire world’s population.  Incredulous, I checked.  It’s true.  (Source:  https://www.cadtm.org/spip.php?page=imprimer&id_article=12882#:~:text=The%20poorest%2050%25%20of%20the,of%20the%20richest%2062%20persons. ) Who are 10 richest people in the world?  9 are from the US and 1

  Even before David Rubenstein bought the Baltimore Orioles this year, I’ve often extolled the virtues of his Peer to Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV. Of course, buying the Orioles sealed the deal.   In any case, I just finished his interview of David Solomon, the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Goldman gets 300,000 applicants for

A friend asked to write on the unexpected 2nd and 3rd order effects of new technologies.  I think the biggies are AI, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology.  I decided to start with AI.  Being basically a lazy bastard, I decided to see what ChatGPT would come up with.  The result hits all the things I’ve been

In the late 1950s, I went to Antietam Street School in Hagerstown, Maryland, for 5th grade with Miss Maude Hildebrand and 6th grade with Miss Katherine Brown.  Both these teachers saw something in me.  Thanks to their quiet confidence in my potential and active encouragement, they put me on the path to being a better

This post is long and dense.  But I hope … and I believe … it’s worth your time if your professional success depends on cybersecurity. Cybersecurity … or, more accurately, cyber-insecurity … is worsening. Threats and attacks are increasing, not subsiding.  Vendors continue to spew out products and services that are laden with vulnerabilities (aka

  So, here’s an article on “Marketplace Dignity.”    It made me think of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.  It’s hard to work on self-actualization and self-esteem when you are hungry, cold, and in danger.    Same for Marketplace Dignity and Operational Performance and Customer Satisfaction.    The article’s emphasis on giving Customers Agency, Representation, and

Another wonderfully written… and disturbing … piece of investigative reporting and careful analysis by Brill on an important topic.  Ad revenue driven social media is destroying our society and democracy.  PS. It’s not lost on me that I am posting this to Facebook, LinkedIn, and X.

Just finished watching the Thursday, June 27, 2024 Presidential Debate.  I can’t take it anymore.  At the risk of starting a food fight, here’s what I think.  Full disclosure.  I’m a centrist Democrat … probably more conservative-leaning on national security, economic progress, taxes, and big government … probably more liberal-leaning on social progress, climate, and

  Everything I’ve read by Steven Brill is top-notch:  informative, addresses an important topic, unbiased, fact based and data rich, and very readable.  America’s Bitter Pill is no exception… and it will likely piss you off.   A headline might be:  the US healthcare system costs more, a lot more, and provides worse outcomes than those