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Lot’s coming on gen AI this week at Boca; it seems first among topics. Most of the participants are coming into the week healthy. With inflation paused in its decline, brokers are not getting killed by low inflation. Exchanges, especially energy related products and markets are strong. What is fascinating to me and I think […]

I joined some work friends old and new at an incredible place generously rented by Tim G., the instigator of the weekend. Vail remains in all its glory; posh, a little Russian, a little Jersey Shore, local, and truly world class in its runs. It manages to keep its deep 10th Mountain Division and European […]

I took, would have dragged, my wife to Dune 2 last week. My daughter was a last minute addition. I realized I have been fully addicted to SciFi and some Fantasy novels for more than 45 years. I read Dune in 1977 when I was 11. It changed my life. But I could not reliably […]

Every once in a while I succumb to a sports analogy. Apology in advance. Several companies I’ve worked for and consulted with had “Jason Kelce” like employees. They were part of the bedrock. Often you didn’t know of the personal life challenges and pain they had at home. They were part of the machine but […]

I recently turned 58, on Jan 4. Lots of nasty statistics go up in your 60s. Already between 55 and 64, 69.5% of us have at least one chronic condition- aka the artherosclerotic diseases, cancer, some diabetes/insulin production related conditions and neurodegenerative disease…over 65 the percentage goes to 85.6%. There is an entirely different end […]

The reason AI won’t kill all the artists, writers for example, is that we, in general, are driven to create. For a long time music, books, photography, etc. have been commercially driven toward formulas. Artists have experimented for centuries with technology in the macro. There’s plenty of good enough, sugary art that has already been […]