February 2023

Our military is preparing for war with China in the Pacific and South China Sea. Military leaders don’t typically say that outright. But that is what the military is doing. War with China is kind of like a tropical depression out there, and various models have it growing into a Category 5 hurricane headed for […]

I read the Dallas Morning News and Houston Chronicle every day, because I am interested in Texas. For those of you who have never been to Texas, it is a country on our southern border. Techically, Texas is an American state, but it has never really just been an American state. It is its own

https://www.wsj.com/articles/og-mark-returns-at-meta-as-facebook-parent-gives-thousands-of-staff-subpar-reviews-56e648b4?st=mdgbz7rsa78r7e6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink The WSJ has a story about Facebook giving a lot of people bad performance reviews. I spent 47 years getting and giving performance reviews. I didn’t like them. I don’t think they achieved much. They are time consuming. Often, with substandard employees, you will read about the same problems in years of reviews, and

ServiceTitan Burned $170 Million in Cash in 2022 Stripe Burned Through More Than $500 Million in Cash Last Year Those were two headlines in The Information this morning. This reminds me a little of the late ’90s, when everyone was burning through cash. Eventually, you burn through all your cash and you shut down. Or

Reading this story about Bari Weiss in the Times of London reinforces my belief that a lot of what is in politics and media today is about people making a living. Everyone is trying to find an audience and monetize the audience. I haven’t figured out how to do that. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bari-weiss-the-queen-of-free-speech-and-anti-woke-warrior-9369xb3fk

Companies all over the world are trying to sort this out. Once it became obvious three years ago that business could proceed from home, and once employees started working from home, the genie was kind of out of the bottle. Some CEOs are really unhappy with a WFH workforce. Some of this is because it

https://morningconsult.com/2024-gop-primary-election-tracker/ Surveys show that around 47% of Republicans support Donald Trump for the nomination and the rest support other candidates. Ron DeSantis is coming in at around a third of the surveyed Republicans. This indicates that a narrow majority of Republicans want someone else as their 2024 nominee besides Trump. DeSantis’ strategy is simple. He

https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/local/2023/02/16/officials-push-forward-with-wilmington-harbor-deepening-project/69881068007/ This story says that Savannah takes in 5.9 million containers a year, compared to around 300,000 in Wilmington. Savannah, Charleston and Norfolk have deeper channels than Wilmington, which is trying to get a dredging project through the corps. It may be the end of the decade. From the story: “And the Georgia port, like

I can’t pinpoint when we started going to conferences and conventions and symposiums in person again. For a while, nothing was in person, and then some things were, and now a lot of them. Remote work is possible, but it really is hard to have large gatherings remotely. And it is really hard to have

California has been losing population, 500,000 the last couple of years. NC has gained 259,000 during this time. I think one problem is housing. I remember driving around San Jose around 25 years ago, and looking at neighborhoods that were like 900-square-foot tract housing dating probably from the 1950s and ’60s. They were going for