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Mark Alexander's avatar

I love your Borland stories. By the time I was working there, Philippe was pretty much out of the picture, reduced to a kind of eccentric figurehead.

Also, thanks for comparing tariffs to the caret exchange rate. I was hoping you'd write about that.

"[...]believing that his success means he’s good at everything and can do whatever he wants."

This is pretty common in the tech world, too. Bill Gates and Larry Ellison are just two examples.

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Philip Mollica's avatar

That is so funny that you were at Borland! I'm 30 years retired IT, and that was a blast from the past. There was so much drama in the software industry. I can see you heading up HR there. 😅

But I thought this is brilliant.

"What’s the upside? The last defenders of the federal gov’t were federal employees. As they’re replaced by robots and phone trees and AI, no one will object when we introduce our plan to take back our power."

Of course!!! This is great until Skynet subsequently comes online and replaces the IRS and CIA as enforcement LOL.

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