Manager or individual contributor -- you don't really have a choice

Most of us don't really have a choice about what career path to follow -- you can't work against type.

Effective Criticism

How to accept and give criticism, and some criticisms of public policy and Microsoft

Leadership is tough

Leadership lessons for the week

Questions about the next wave of compute

The computing environment will probably change dramatically in the next 40 years, as it has in the last 40 years, and we aren't doing enough to guarantee our leadership.

Notes from all over

A grab bag of notes on working, growth, cars, and the USA.

Microsoft and its pivots

Microsoft's pivot to AI is showing some growing pains; it is just so much easier to use ChatGPT.

We are ceding technology leadership

The Trump/Vance administration is attacking nearly every part of our technology leadership.

The Trump/Vance Bill

The Trump Vance program is whacking all our pocketbooks. What are we getting in return?

Noodling on Information Flows

This isn't about tariffs! I'm reading about the changing nature of information in our society.

The 50 Best Things Microsoft Has Ever Made

OK, I am deep in the weeds working on a post, and it has proven to be very challenging.   And so instead of sending out some half-finished incoherent blathering, I am taking a short walk down memory lane.  It is Microsoft’s 50th anniversary this year, and these are the