A musing on the ambiguity of Alan Turing — Alan Turing intuited artificial neural networks. Nary an implementation detail is missing. Well, maybe a few. The sophistication of simplicity is deceptive. Essentially my entire life, I’ve been ushered into brevity. I frustrate even the most patient loved one with my contextual framing in an answer to a ‘yes’ or…

Inside the Church of Apple and the living word of Steve Jobs — This is part five of a five-part series. New? Read parts I-IV: Welcome to Apple A Fortress of Secrecy and Spirituality Pale Blue: Connecting dots to death in #AppleToo The ultimate sophistication of Thinking Different If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? …

Inside the Church of Apple and the living word of Steve Jobs — This is part four of a five-part series. New? Read parts I-III: Welcome to Apple A Fortress of Secrecy and Spirituality Pale Blue: Connecting dots to death in #AppleToo From its creation, Apple had two sets of marketing materials. The ones that were dispersed among employees and management, and the…

Inside the Church of Apple and the living word of Steve Jobs — This is part three of a five-part series. New? Read parts I & II: Welcome to Apple A Fortress of Secrecy and Spirituality You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. — Steve Jobs Pale Blue: Connecting dots to deaths in #AppleToo …

Inside the Church of Apple and the living word of Steve Jobs — Part two of a five-part series. New here? Read Part I: Welcome to Apple. Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. — Sir Isaac Newton, Untitled Treatise on Revelation I’ve always found this quote somewhat confounding. Truth’s simplicity always felt…

Inside the Church of Apple and the living word of Steve Jobs — Forward: Where there’s a pattern, there’s a reason The US Securities and Exchange Commission found Activision Blizzard liable for a $35 Million fine because of its culture. I angry-rant tweeted in July of 2021 to tell the world that the company’s initial response to the lawsuit was a lie. I had insider information as someone who went through…

I grew up not knowing any of my grandparents. My dad was adopted in a closed adoption through the Catholic church in Spokane, Washington. My mom was raised by my great grandparents in Prosser after her mom took her own life in the mid-60’s. My great grandparents didn’t have much…

Inside the Church of Apple and the living word of Steve Jobs — Welcome to Apple A Fortress of Secrecy and Spirituality Pale Blue: Connecting dots to death in #AppleToo The ultimate sophistication of Thinking Different Out of the Bondi Blue, a Pink Pearl Apple emerges This is mostly about Apple, but there’s references to things that require giving credit where it is…

Time to think equitable. — One of the things that struck me in such a difficult and raw way when my colleagues started reaching out from all over the world in June was how surprised I was that things that I experienced at Blizzard could possibly be happening at Apple. I thought of the company…