Topic
Tech Industry
Industry retrospectives: acquisitions, layoffs, cycles, and the people who lived through the dotcom-to-AI arc.
From the archive
9 posts-
2008-08-18
Hitler Goes To Burning Man, Gets Rick Roll’d and Kicked off WOW Servers While Using Windows Vista
Hitler Goes To Burning Man, Gets Rick Roll’d and Kicked off WOW Servers While Using Windows Vista August 18, 2008 · No Comments There’ve been a slew of these hilarious mashups lately, so I decided to put together a small compilation of them.
-
2006-08-27
Don’t marry career women
Don’t marry career women According to a piece in Forbes , a lot of sociological research points to strong correlations between career women and bad marriages.
-
2004-07-01
What You Can’t Say - The Conformist Test
What You Can’t Say - The Conformist Test July 1, 2004 · 2 Comments From Paul Graham “Let’s start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? If the answer is no, you might want to stop and thi...
-
2004-06-29
I got the visa, but I almost got lucky too
I got the visa, but I almost got lucky too June 29, 2004 · No Comments It went something like this: Consulate guy(CG): What’s your undergraduate degree in? Me: Fashion Design CG: And you have a Masters in Sociology Me: That’s right CG: And you’re going to a bu...
-
2004-02-19
Tech: A tiny history of T9
Tech: A tiny history of T9 February 19, 2004 · Leave a Comment This entry was originally at http://kingsley.blog-city.com/read/493850.htm Technoscribe says (scroll to the bottom) ”… a guy in the mid 90’s who’s father, following serious a road accident, had onl...
-
2004-01-27
Qualitative and subjective are not the same!
Qualitative and subjective are not the same! January 27, 2004 · 8 Comments This entry was originally at http://kingsley.blog-city.com/read/442022.htm You’d think people who go to business school can tell the difference, right? You’d be so wrong! I ran into a b...
-
2004-01-21
Gillette Vector Plus - Made for India
Gillette Vector Plus - Made for India January 21, 2004 · 5 Comments This entry was originally at http://kingsley.blog-city.com/read/377965.htm This from Bajji : The newly unveiled Gillette Vector Plus might well be one of the first products made by a multi-nat...
-
2004-01-20
Grab that goat! Or cow!
Grab that goat! Or cow! January 20, 2004 · No Comments This entry was originally at http://kingsley.blog-city.com/read/368195.htm If you are vegetarian because you don’t want to hurt animals, you should first take a deep breath and then read through this artic...
-
2003-11-25
Did Dale Carnegie commit suicide?
Did Dale Carnegie commit suicide? November 25, 2003 · 35 Comments Update: Looks like he didn’t from this NY Times article .
Retrospectives
3 posts-
retrospective · 2026-05-16
AI Agents 2024-2026: The Next Layer After SaaS
Autonomous AI agents 2024-2026: Salesforce Agentforce, Microsoft Copilot Agents, Anthropic Claude Computer Use, AWS Bedrock Agents, and what this changes for the SaaS playbook.
-
retrospective · 2026-05-14
Open Source Foundations 2003-2026: From OSI to the Linux Foundation Empire
Twenty-three years of open-source governance evolution: OSI license disputes, the Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse, the Linux Foundation, CNCF, and the 2024-2026 source-available license war.
-
retrospective · 2026-05-12
The SaaS Pioneers' Playbook 2003-2010: Lessons That Built the Modern Cloud
What 2003-2010 SaaS pioneers (Salesforce, Basecamp/37signals, Box, Dropbox, Workday) figured out that 2026 founders still rebuild from scratch every year.