In "World Without Secrets" I described the Network Army: leaderless, united by common values, action-oriented. That’s #MeToo. They don't need leaders to tell them what to do. They need leaders to do what they tell them. November, soon.

Did someone say "That's one giant effing bubble"? x.com/dtapscott/stat…

Recently announced vulnerabilities in processors from Intel/AMD/ARM are essentially contamination in a man-made environment, like the asbestos crisis of the 1970s/80s or the Y2K crisis. Environmental contaminations are costly and time-consuming to fix--just ask BP.

More "It behoves (sic) us always to remember that in physics it has taken great men to discover simple things." Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson,"On Growth and Form," 1917. To which we can now add: and big data.

Recent events illustrate a truth I learned building data warehouses in the 1980s: the best data in the world is useless if the people in charge don't care about facts. Facts are precious, but not to everyone.

Based on recent upticks in corporate value resulting from the addition of "blockchain" to a company's name, I have decided to legally change my name to Richard Blockchain. Shares in any business venture I start under this moniker will be available soon at inflated prices.

As per EE Cummings, "The Song of Singing": All singing's talking and all talking's to oneself... (more lines, and then): But the very song of singing is silence x.com/GermanArtman/s…

Like she says: read it for yourself. x.com/SenFeinstein/s…

Go get 'em Matt. x.com/mattmittenthal…

Word. x.com/johnrampton/st…

Correction on the lines below: all is merely talk which isn't singing and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of(as mountains feel and lovers)singing is silence x.com/rc_hunter/stat…

Russian stooge Julian Assange acquires Ecuadorian citizenship. I wonder how long that will stave off his day of reckoning. nytimes.com/2018/01/11/wor…

Love it. x.com/johnrampton/st…

Hey Paul Ryan: how many more of Trump's daily displays of corrupt, venal, racist incompetence do you plan to countenance before you do something to help save the Republic that you swore to serve faithfully?

Doug Harvey, perhaps the greatest umpire in the history of baseball, has died at 87. Without an ump the game's not fair, or even a game. Thanks Doug for doing something so important and difficult so well. nytimes.com/2018/01/14/obi…

And as per Fred Reichheld, lots more profitable too. x.com/Inc/status/953…

Listening to music. Reflecting that simple things done with great care are moving and beautiful. Something deeper than dazzle, that can be repeated over and over without losing its power.

Ursula LeGuin is dead at 88. Her books "A Wizard of Earthsea" and "The Left Hand of Darkness" changed my mind and so changed my life. So much truth on every page, packaged in wonder. "There is great strength in innocence, but no protection against evil." Thanks, Ms. LeGuin.

Musing on the capabilities of the Fender Mustang amps hunterharp.com/taking-the-fen…

I would think so. Who's going to want to list Cambridge Analytica on their resume? x.com/FrankLuntz/sta…