6/15/2022: Internet Explorer Has Officially Retired In this blog post today, Microsoft confirmed that IE…
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20 start-ups, biotech, hardware, software, space launch; 58 nations; learning, free markets, food, wine, cycling, walking; Seattle, Microsoft, Northwestern University, Garfield HS, DreamBox Learning, IBM, Amazon.
On Amazon.com: Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind (1995, Simon Baron Cohen).…
[Last Updated on Thursday 1/26/2023]My wife Lisa and I are active “angel” investors and advisers.…
In 1998, I was working on the “RedShark” project to create a new user interface, along with Joe Belfiore, Steve Capps, and a team of ~15 other Microsoft employees. We imagined this could become a “software as a service” called “Neptune” that would supersede Windows.
My friend Todd Warren is co-teaching a class on Web Development at Ashesi University in…
Attending the Doing Business at Microsoft class in 1994 inspired me to propose that Microsoft…
With the recent news that Microsoft is permanently closing its retail stores, I recalled the…
“The average top-quintile household pays on average $109,125 in taxes and is left, after taxes…
I’ve always been curious about biology, genetics, evolution, biochemistry — the “life sciences” — but…
[ See my 29 slide 3/10/2011 presentation: PPT version and PDF version ] I was invited by Professors Katherine…
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