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Month: February 2026

The Tech Bros and Dick Moves

The Tech Bros and Dick Moves

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“About once a month, on a Friday or Saturday night, the Silicon Valley Technorati gather for a drug-heavy, sex-heavy party… and the bacchanal will last an entire weekend. The places change, but many of the players and the purpose remain the same,” Jebmo posted some eight years ago in blog about Inside Silicon Valley’s Secretive, Orgiastic Dark Side.

The bacchanals for all we know are ongoing and still consensual.

“…they speak proudly about how they’re overturning traditions and paradigms in their private lives, just as they do in the technology world they rule. Read More...

Something Big Is Happening, But Something Bigger Is Being Missed

Something Big Is Happening, But Something Bigger Is Being Missed

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know that software is eating the world, and that something big is happening, thanks to Matt Shumer’s piece on the subject, which is  a must-read. Make no mistake about it, AI is here to stay, and it’s no longer a nice-to-have in your professional toolkit. Equally importantly, it’s critical to update it regularly, given the exponential rate at which it’s improving. Also, it’s important to be specific in your requests when utilizing it: It’s up to the user to use the AI and not vice versa.

“Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic…has a thought experiment. Imagine it’s 2027. A new country appears overnight. 50 million citizens, every one smarter than any Nobel Prize winner who has ever lived. They think 10 to 100 times faster than any human. They never sleep. They can use the internet, control robots, direct experiments, and operate anything with a digital interface. What would a national security advisor say?

“Amodei says the answer is obvious: “the single most serious national security threat we’ve faced in a century, possibly ever.” Read More...

A Tech Issue that’s Getting Old Fast

A Tech Issue that’s Getting Old Fast

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With all the focus on AI these days, we tend to forget about that other tech obsession: youth.

Never mind the plastic surgeries or as The Wall Street Journal reports, “To combat fears of aging out of the workforce, men in tech are splurging on face-lifts, neck lifts and eyelid lifts, say plastic surgeons…Tech is a young person’s game.”

Unless you look at the fact: Read More...

The Real Startup Danger: You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know.

The Real Startup Danger: You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know.

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You’ve heard it a million times, but with the various AI assistants now available, has that changed?  It’s now much easier and affordable to found a startup, that’s for sure. Thanks to vibe coding and the like, you don’t even need a tech team or a team at all, or so it would seem.

Partner differences is one of the big reasons why startups fail. The new trend in the founding team? Having your AI as your co-founder.

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham gave an excellent masterclass a while back on why most startups quietly fail. While the tech landscape has changed considerably since he gave the talk, the basic advice hasn’t. Read More...