Archive - Life Since the Baby Boom

This New Internet Thing

A Book I Wrote!

12 hrs ago •

Live Theater Comes to Google

Everyone thinks that Google employees devote 20% of their time to their passions, and isn’t that wonderful? Gmail started out as a 20%; everyone’s heard…

Apr 18 •

Anarchy in the US, Part 3

Was This Martial Law?

Apr 15 •

AI Does Journalism

But How Did I Do?

Apr 11 •

Anarchy in the US, Part 2

(Continued from Part 1) It’s Lit The nationwide rail boycott was on. The Indianapolis Journal on June 29 devoted almost its entire front page to it…

Apr 8 •

Flat Tire on Your Rental Car

(And the art of the Deal)

Apr 4 •

Anarchy in the US, Part 1

The Revolution That Almost Happened

Apr 1 •

March 2024

Sudden Career Change

He coulda been a programmer

Mar 28 •

Chicken-Fried Rice

Mar 25 •

Guerrilla Filmmaking at Xerox

The Truth About Programmers AND Marketers

Mar 19 •

Baseball, Without a Chauffeur

Free Range Kids

Mar 18 •

Bring Back Private Offices, Part II

Open Office Still Sucks

Mar 11 •

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