You might have heard: Amazon’s co-founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos is leaving the building. He is handing the company’s reins to Andy Jassy, the current head of the fast-growing and very profitable Amazon Web Services. Even though I already wrote about the Amazonian Transition, at the nudging of a friend, I decided to look … Continue reading The how & why of Jeff Bezos’ exit from Amazon
Just over five years ago, I made the argument that the iPhone (and its smartphone cousins) were killing the camera business. I occasionally update the data that shows the widening gap. With 2020 in the rearview mirror and Apple having just reported its quarterly earnings (over $111 billion in iPhone sales alone), I thought it … Continue reading iPhone vs Camera: No Contest
I might not be alone in thinking that Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have distorted the notion of a friend and what really does it mean to be a friend. I have never been the one to put a lot in “friends” on social networks, though I have met many interesting people online who have now become friends — best friends even. Today, I saw a tweet thread by William Shatner, well known for his portrayal of Captain Kirk in the StarTrek series, a good reminder of who and what is a friend. Shatner was talking about his friend and well-known actor Christopher Plummer, who recently passed away. From the tweet storm:
What is the definition of a friend? Somebody you know intimately whose every breath and every thought that is so much like yours or can a friend be someone whose life is intertwined near and afar with great gaps of time between meetings?
William Shatner on Twitter
I am fortunate, that I have quite a few that qualify.
