Déjà Vu All Over Again Are you getting the strange feeling like you’ve been here before? Like you’ve experienced exactly what’s happening now a year or maybe two years ago? If you’re a fan of The Matrix movie franchise, you’ll know that déjà vu is actually a glitch in the computer program that is feeding us our idea of reality. The ‘real’ reality (spoiler alert) is that we lost a war with intelligent machines we created who now use us humans as their batter [...]

Optimize 2021 Greater Than Tokyo 2020? The star-crossed 2020 Summer Olympics (held in 2021) will probably go down either as one of the most or least memorable Olympics in history. What will it be remembered for: the durability of the athletes and the organizers throughout a global pandemic? The willingness of some star athletes to drop out of events for mental health reasons? The lack of fans in the stands? The cardboard beds? Then of course, there’s the larger ques [...]

How to Say ‘Leave Me Alone’ without an ‘Opposite Shock’ A year ago, there was a sudden “shock” to the world that caused mass disruption in people’s normal routines, forcing an uncomfortable behavioral change for most. This pandemic-induced shift to an isolated work-from-home (WFH) routine should become a shibboleth once vaccines flow freely. But perhaps it wont. Over the course of the last year, we’ve all acclimated to our new routines, comfy chairs, lounging in between [...]

Today’s New Triple Play (without baseball) Last week everything was as fancy as an iPhone 11. Being on a business conference call with the sounds of a baby happily chirping in the background was distracting. Those good old days (back in February) when anything less than elegance or perfection was disturbing. With today’s California lock down order of all citizens, the fifth largest economy in the world has nearly ground to a halt. Things will change. W [...]