Archive for the ‘News and Views’ Category

Thinking about the Abundance Agenda at 185 mph

I am fortunate to be in Europe for a couple of weeks. It’s always striking to see the quality of public infrastructure here. The Paris Metro is a marvel—beautiful, fast, and extensive. (Why the Metro operates so much better than the NYC Subway, given its smaller operating budget, is a story for another time.) This […]

Let’s call it what it is—bribery

As is often the case with President Trump, the corruption is out in the open. As a lawyer, it sickens me that the president continues to get away with this. Are people okay with this? CEO Makes Shocking Admission About Why He’s Buying Trump’s Meme Coin (Yahoo! News) A crypto mogul who invested millions into […]

Ken’s opinion pieces published in the Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Inquirer

I noted this in my longer blog post this evening, but to post quickly here: two opinion pieces I wrote have now been published: one in the Chicago Tribune and the other, co-written with my wife, in the Philadelphia Inquirer. (These pieces may be paywalled, but I will post PDFs here in the coming days.) I hope you […]

Times that try men’s souls

President Trump and a captive and docile Republican Party are pursuing authoritarian power. Everyone must step up to defend our country.

Honoring the sacrifices of D-Day veterans

Today – June 6, 2024 – is the 80th anniversary of D-Day – the Allied landing in Europe to liberate the continent from Hitler and Nazism. Every June 6, I pause to think about those who fought and the many who died on the beaches of Normandy and during the campaign that followed, and I always experience […]

Don’t let the CCPA stop your startup goldrush – a primer on privacy in California

The behemoth General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) governs the European Economic Area*. By contrast, no federal privacy regulation applies across all U.S. states. A company must comply with regulations of the states in which it does business. As a practical matter, compliance is geared towards the state with the most stringent regulations. Effective January 1, […]

Now THIS is interesting…

I was browsing — okay, I admit it, I was on Twitter — and came across an ad for a new, privacy-respecting web browser called Brave. Intrigued, I went to look at it. It’s based on Chromium (Google’s open-source code behind the Chrome browser) but has a whole different (better) approach to privacy. Interestingly, it […]

Everyone (in and out of tech) should be listening to Kara Swisher

There’s so much great content being created today. It’s virtually impossible to keep up with the high quality “television” shows being broadcast and streamed. (Still, do yourself a favor and watch Orange is the New Black and Chernobyl at minimum.) It’s pretty much the same with podcasts. Fortunately, I have a reasonable amount of commuting, […]

The surveillance state has arrived

I have been interested in computers and technology since junior high school, when my school acquired its first computer – a lonely RadioShack TRS-80, housed up in the library. Because I was a strong math student, I was selected as one of two kids from each class to visit with the computer a couple of […]