I rant about you – the small yet engaged audience I’ve built over the past 2.5 years doing this personal podcast. And I explain what’s next. Come along with me or go fuck yourself. [powerpress] Links from this episode: The Morning Dump w

I rant about how Microsoft’s HoloLens is still essentially vaporware, why Microsoft is intentionally positioning it as a work-related device and why making Windows 10 free won’t increase its adoption rate because both mainstream users & b

I rant about the pointlessness of holiday shopping, why Twitter should be concerned Instagram has passed them in active users, how display advertising on the web is a complete fraud, and why you’ll always be safer in traditional yellow cabs than wit

I rant about the madness of Black Friday shopping, how brawl videos from retail outlets are a way for us to shame those in poverty, why those who decry rampant consumerism need to “check their privilege”, and how we only admonish poor labor pr

I rant about Uber being the poster child of everything that’s wrong with the sharing economy, how we expect too much moral fiber from their executives while applauding their company breaking the law, the double standard that exists in the media when

I rant about the piss-poor voter turnout in the recent election, how Democrats lost due to way too much focus on “privileged” issues, why President Obama’s support of net neutrality is actually detrimental to the movement, and how censor

I rant about the bevy of major retailers blocking out Apple Pay in favor of their upcoming CurrentC mobile payment system, why the move has absolutely nothing to do with collecting personal information and all to do with eliminating merchant credit card f

I rant about Apple’s recent product announcement, how the extensive iPad lineup is simply a strategy to quash the device category’s stalled growth, the business case for keeping 16gb as the entry level storage option, and how Starbucks is the

I rant about Windows 10 and whether or not yearly operating system updates are even necessary, the real reason why Paypal was spun off from eBay, why Redbox Instant failed, how the New York Times won’t accept the fact that consumers won’t pay

I rant about Ello, the new social network sensation of the moment, how it doesn’t differ from any other platform that’s run as a viable business, why those who prefer “echo chambers” are the primary folks flocking to it, and how ha