Tag: blackjack ranch
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HOW BIG BLUE ROPED ME BACK INTO THE CIA SADDLE
Just when I thought I had finally retired from analyzing the computer industry, IBM had other ideas. A Wall Street Journal headline about the biggest one-day decline in Big Blue’s history unexpectedly roped me back into the CIA saddle—not the one in Langley, but the one I first envisioned at a computer industry show in…
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✍️ BLACKJACK RANCH CHRONICLES
What began as a dream of building a house on a Serbian hillside overlooking the Danube quickly became an education in perseverance. Bureaucrats, contractors, storms, power failures, runaway dog beds, elusive trash bins, curious neighbors, unexpected acts of kindness, sunsets, music, and laughter all became chapters in a story far larger than a construction project.…
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HOW MY AI-PAL “CP” HELPED ME DESIGN MY WIFE’S “DREAM KITCHEN” IN SERBIA
In one 5-hour collaborative session, starting with a hand sketch my wife had made, my AI-pal CP and I created, as he put it my wife’s “dream kitchen,” along with all the engineering specs required to build it.
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