After several years of joyously passive health care insurance through Microsoft where everything was handled without thought or care, my family and I have been thrust into the world of overly expensive health care that is obstructive, opaque and frustrating. Microsoft was with Premera Blue Cross. We went with the Premera subsidiary LifeWise of Washington. With a premier plan, … [Read more...] about Personal Health Insurance Experience: LifeWise the Boringly Frustrating Insurer
Netflix: Strategic Dysfunction or 21st-Century Strategic Transparency fueled by citizen regulators?
Photo by freestocks.org on Pexels.com Netflix: Strategic Dysfunction or 21st-Century Strategic Transparency fueled by citizen regulators? The tale has been told about Netflix and its surprise announcement of rate hikes (see Brian Stelter's summary, Netflix, in Reversal, Will Keep Its Services Together, from his Media Decode blog at The New York Times), its equally … [Read more...] about Netflix: Strategic Dysfunction or 21st-Century Strategic Transparency fueled by citizen regulators?
Remembering Steve Jobs #stevejobs
Remembering Steve Jobs...I was a staunch advocate of Tandy TRS-DOS over CPM. I owned a big silver and grey box that I personally updated from 32KB of memory to 48KB and replaced the slow external cassette tape player with two 184KB floppy disk drives. And then I met Macintosh. 128KB of Ram and two 400KB disk drives. For the next decade, I worked closely with Apple as one of the … [Read more...] about Remembering Steve Jobs #stevejobs
Proverb 4 the day…
Forecast the future for a person and you satisfy their curiosity for a day. Teach them to think about the future, and you give them curiosity for a lifetime. --Daniel W. Rasmus Twitter version: Forecast the future 4 a person & U satisfy their curiosity 4 a day-Teach them 2 think abt the future & U give them curiosity 4 a lifetime. … [Read more...] about Proverb 4 the day…
Scenario: Gold isn’t always a safe haven
Many have touted gold as the safe place to invest as prices skyrocketed over the past several months. But gold as a haven is falling to cash as reported in today's FT: Gold slides as investors scramble for cash. Although gold may recover to its record levels, that is by no means assured. Individuals and institutions need to be cautious of any spokesperson or organization … [Read more...] about Scenario: Gold isn’t always a safe haven