Category: Essays and posts
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Welcome to the Derangement
I’ve been reading Ian McEwan’s novel What We Can Know (2025). It’s the first work of fiction that’s held my attention in several years. The real world has been so…
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Peanut butter and chocolate
In October 2006, Yahoo SVP Brad Garlinghouse wrote an internal memo that became known as the Peanut Butter Manifesto (PBM). … I’ve heard our strategy described as spreading peanut butter…
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Grateful for Om
I was saddened to read about the passing of Om Malik last week. I didn’t know Om very well, but our paths crossed in the mid-aughts in San Francisco during…
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Up or down
America was a roller coaster over the weekend. Watching a SpaceX rocket lift off from launch complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center and deliver two NASA astronauts to the International…
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Bring back the Muppet Show!
Watching The Muppets with my family last weekend made me nostalgic for that Saturday afternoon ritual from my childhood, dubbed in German of course. It’s still funny:
Martin Remy 