Take Real Steps to Fight Sexism in Tech

By Tim Berry

Harassment in the workplace. Sexism. Genderism. Bigotry and prejudice. Brogramming. Not just everywhere, but also in high tech, which – you’d think – should have been advanced past that backwardness. Silicon Valley too. Blue city, blue industry, in a blue state. If you’ve been off the grid for a while, read this from the New... Read More »

Stanford Teaches Girls to Code

Stanford Women Teach High School Girls to Code

By Tim Berry

I was glad to see this one on Stanford women teaching high school girls to code. Everybody wins with efforts like these to balance the tech world and fight the long-term skew of tech and programming that has traditionally had more men than women. The source for this video, on YouTube, is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psxl7ytYGio Read More »

Decline of Real Journalism and Fake News are Cause and Effect

By Tim Berry

These are related trends: the decline of traditional journalism and the emergence of fake news everywhere. I’ve accidentally chronicled the decline of journalism in this blog, with occasional posts over the last 10 years. Check out the category journalism here and you’ll see what I mean. Now, suddenly, so-called fake news is a big issue.... Read More »

The Morning After the 2016 Election

By Tim Berry

Nov. 9, 2016. Of course this blog is not about politics or elections. I’m a business guy, basically, and I write about startups, planning, and stories. But I’m also human. I care. Here’s what I hope today: That the women of this country stay united and resolute in their support of equal opportunity, equal pay,... Read More »

women in business infographic

Infographic: Women in Business

By Tim Berry

Thanks to Balboa Capital for this infographic today with a summary of statistics on women-owned businesses.  This all looks like good information to me. With limits. For example, I chronically question the research on factors considered important because I think these surveys are politically motivated and set up to serve political agendas. So in this... Read More »

Data, Politics, Poets and Truth

By Tim Berry

In the good old days – I turned teenager in 1961, and 18 in 1966 – we had a generally accepted process for establishing truth. First, we generally distinguished opinion from fact. Second, when fact was in doubt, we turned to evidence.  And evidence, once presented, was accepted. Evidence ended arguments. But data killed that, politics... Read More »

TED talk: A Growing Threat to Democracy

By Tim Berry

About a third of the way into this talk from last year’s TED global the speaker says: Have you wondered why politicians are not what they used to be? It’s not because their DNA has degenerated. It is rather because one can be in government today and not in power, because power has migrated from the... Read More »

A Physicist’s Deep-Dive into Who Controls the World Economy

By Tim Berry

In this TED talk, physicist James B. Glattfelder looks at who controls the world economy, focusing first on ownership as a complex system. He says, in his introduction: “We spend billions of dollars trying to understand the origins of the universe while we still don’t understand the conditions for a stable society, a functioning economy, or... Read More »