The first thing I remember about Memphis wasn’t music. It was sirens.
Not loud enough to scare me at first — just normal. Like dogs barking or trains rolling somewhere far off in the night. I grew up in South…
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The New Face of Racial Backlash in America - KKK in Suits and Ties
There was a time in American history when racial oppression wore white hoods, burned crosses, and relied on open terror to enforce power. The Ku Klux Klan did not hide its intentions. It used violence, intimidation, lynchings, and fear to…
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The Return of the Hard Sell: Technology, Trust, and the Trump-Era Mood
The Return of the Hard Sell: Technology, Trust, and the Trump-Era Mood
In the late 2010s and into the 2020s, many Americans began to feel a subtle but persistent shift in the texture of everyday life online and off. It…
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From Packed Dance Floors to Polished Nightlife: What Happened to Phoenix Area's Club Scene?
From Packed Dance Floors to Polished Nightlife: What Happened to Phoenix’s Club Scene?
If you spent nights out in Phoenix, Tempe, or Scottsdale between the 1990s and around 2010, you probably remember something that feels almost extinct today: true nightclubs…
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When the Clip Doesn’t Match the Caption: The Kid Cudi–M.I.A. Misinformation Problem
This whole thing is not adding up
The internet is once again doing what it does best—and worst: compressing a messy, real-world moment into a viral narrative that may or may not match reality.
The latest example involves Kid Cudi…
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Google Has Given Up on Search Algorithms and SEO, and Now Sells Out to the Highest Bidder
There’s a growing frustration among everyday users and professionals alike: the sense that Google Search is no longer a tool for discovery, but a marketplace where visibility is increasingly determined by who pays the most. Whether that perception is fully…
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Unplug Trump's World and Plug it Back in - How Trump's era has turned software products into quality-abandoned shit.
Over the past decade, software and web application development have undergone a dramatic transformation. What was once a discipline grounded in craftsmanship, stability, and long-term thinking has increasingly shifted toward speed, cost efficiency, and rapid feature delivery. The combined influence…
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The IT Industry I Knew Is Gone
The Industry I Knew Is Gone
I’m 56 years old, and I’ve been writing software long enough to remember when discipline mattered more than hype. Back then, we argued about architecture, not optics. We wrote documentation because someone else actually…
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How Elon Musk and Donald Trump have destroyed the capitalistic principles of the United States
Trumponomics - The Erosion of Capitalism
In the past few years, a new management philosophy has taken hold in parts of American business and politics: the idea that the fastest way to “fix” an organization is simply to cut it…
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Trump's Fascination with Reagan but Far From his Polished "Great Communicator" Vibe
The Reagan Era and the Glorification of Wealth
During the 1980s, a cultural shift occurred in the United States that reshaped how Americans viewed money, success, and social status. Under the presidency of Ronald Reagan, economic policy emphasized deregulation, tax…
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