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December 2022

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The Sad Tales of George Santos

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What would it be like to be so ashamed of your life that you felt compelled to invent a new one?Most of us don’t feel compelled to do that. Most of us take the actual events of our lives, including the failures and frailties, and we gradually construct coheren... More »

David Brooks Announces the Sidney Awards for Best Essays

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’Tis the season to detach yourself from the news cycle and look for the bigger trends and the deeper human stories. And so every year the Sidney Awards, which I created in honor of the late, great philosopher Sidney Hook, are here to help you take that step ba... More »

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Everything You Need to Know About Parmesan Cheese

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The King of Cheese Parmesan cheese is a hard, nutty cheese made from cow's milk and is native to Italy. It is a versatile cheese used in various dishes and is known for its sharp, salty flavor and granular texture. A Little History The origins of Parmesan chee... More »

Why Dickens Haunts Us

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WASHINGTON — I had always been a bah humbug sort of person about Christmas.It seemed like a season of stress, as my parents scrambled to find the money to buy presents for five kids and have a big feast. I didn’t like the materialism or the mawkishness. Why sh... More »

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What do GigaOm analysts see as the big trends in 2023? 

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This week I spoke to a number of GigaOm analysts about how they see 2023. Costs are driving, and consolidation, better architectures and more and governance are following, they told me – whilst this will cause a wave of uncertainty, you can be taking steps now... More »

Do Not Cross Ron DeSantis

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When you picture Ron DeSantis, is he smiling or glowering? Telling you about some new project he’ll bring to life or some group of people he’ll bring to their knees? Sowing inspiration or vowing retribution?I’m guessing he’s the seething protagonist of a reven... More »

Biden’s America Finds Its Voice

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The cameras mostly focused on Volodymyr Zelensky during his address to Congress on Wednesday night, but I focused my attention as much as I could on the audience in the room. There was fervor, admiration, yelling and whooping. In a divided nation, we don’t oft... More »

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2022: A space-comic odyssey

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Dear Reader, About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph... More »

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Why DevOps is failing: It’s Not You, It’s The Tools

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We all know the adage — “Bad workers blame their tools.” But here’s five reasons why the software tools involved in DevOps in general, and the CI/CD pipeline in particular, have become part of the problem rather than the solution.  1. They take too long to dep... More »

Women Are on the March

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Perhaps you missed the big news: In 2023, there will be a record-breaking 12 women serving as governors around the nation. Way over the previous record of … nine.And your reaction is:Hey, that’s 24 percent — not bad.That’s less than a quarter!Are any of them g... More »

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