What a year 2021 has been! Exciting in spite of covid (waves after waves). Let us do a quick review of some salient events that took place during 2021. 1. The cost of a PhD in virology, immunology and molecular biology has dropped to the price of an Internet connection…

Background to this post. For 10 years, I spent my professional life turning high-tech companies around. I did not specifically decide to get into this line of work. It just happened. Over my early business career, as a product line manager in California, I had been given “fix it” assignments…

One thing that distinguishes us, humans, from animals is storytelling. From Homer’s recounting the tales of Ulysses to listening to your wife’s account of how her day went, we spend, have spent and will continue to spend, vast amounts of time listening to or telling stories. This fact recently, and…

To state that we are living unprecedented times is probably the euphemism of the century. The world, as we knew it only a few weeks ago, is frozen. Entire countries are under lockdown. Others will soon follow. Some industries are completely or almost completely stopped (air travel, hospitality industry, leisure…