Black Portraits Claim Power, Presence, and Quiet Defiance
Amy Sherald’s American Sublime is at the @HighMuseumofArt in Atlanta, and I spent a long time standing in front of each painting trying to understand why I couldn’t move. Every subject carries something you rarely see given to Black people in portraiture: full presence. Not pain. Not protest. Not performance. Just power, class, and a kind of deep interior peace that feels almost defiant in its stillness. I had seen the portrait of Breonna Taylor before. The Vanity Fair cover. I thought I knew it. Standing in front of it as a white woman is something else entirely. She is not a headline in that painting. She is not a hashtag. She is a person, fully alive, taking up all the space she deserved, looking back at you. I was not prepared for that. The piece that stayed with me longest is from 2016, “Listen, you a wonder. You a city of a woman. You got a geography of your own.” Painted before most people knew Sherald’s name. It reads like a visual ode to Black women, in the spirit of Maya Angelou, quietly insisting on joy and magnitude at a moment when the world was not making that easy. If you are in Atlanta, go.
Prioritizing Consumer AI: Scalable, Efficient Small Models
Are you winning? @demishassabis “Winning to what? There will be a handful of companies.Where we are doing very well is on the consumer side of the models where we can ship to millions of users and we are making...
Carrier JV Locks Satellite Access Behind Telecom Fronts
The Big Three carriers forming a JV for satellite D2D is a defensive play IMO. T-Mobile already runs D2D with Starlink. AT&T and Verizon have AST SpaceMobile partnerships. They were missing a unified position keeping satellite providers from reaching customers...
Embrace Aging Parents' Present Self, Not Past Memory
Today is my first Mother’s Day without my mom, and my first as the mother of an adult. I used to say dementia took her from me early. The truth is I took myself out. I spent those last years grieving...
Apple’s ID‑free Discounts: How Abuse Was Prevented?
I always thought it was so strange that Apple did not require ID before. How was the discount system not abused?
Microsoft’s 2026
Buried in @Microsoft ’s 2026 Work Trend Index is something most companies are not ready to hear. And every manager should read it https://t.co/vld8FUMOdD
Over Half of AI Users Now Outperform Last Year's Capabilities
58% of AI users are already producing work they couldn’t do a year ago. Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index shows exactly how far behind their organizations have fallen. Here is what stuck out for me https://t.co/AH9DUFTxmW
Intel Gains Alex Katouzian as Qualcomm Loses Executive
Big news from @Intel. I had just seen the news that @AlexKatouzian had left @Qualcomm. Great addition for Intel, great opportunity for Alex to make a difference in the future if the company. Curious to see who takes his role...
Excited to Read Susie Wolff’s ‘Driven’ on Paris Trip
Very much looking forward to digging into “Driven” by Susie Wolff and I have almost nine hours on Monday on my way to Paris to do just that https://t.co/dWyuURkSYV
Good Business Like Delta Benefits Customers
Talking about how @Delta is better. Sure it is good business but good business most of the times brings something positive to customers
Apple Abandons Net‑cash‑neutral Goal Amid AI Push
Interesting that Apple dropped “net cash neutral” as a formal target after 7 years. With a new CEO coming and AI investment ramping, the flexibility to evaluate cash and debt independently makes sense. $AAPL
Schools Are Choosing MacBook Air over Chromebooks, Says Tim Cook
I want the OEMs who tell me schools don’t buy Macs to hear what @tim_cook said today “We’re seeing school systems like the Kansas City Public Schools that are switching from Chromebooks and Windows PCs to the MacBook Air....
Moto’s LA Week Reveals Decisions Behind New Phone Specs
It is easy to cover a phone launch and stop at the specs. The more interesting story is the decision-making that produced them. @Moto had a good week in Los Angeles, and the context behind it is worth understanding.
Copilot Engagement Matches Outlook; Satisfaction Now Key
Copilot weekly engagement now matches Outlook. That is the structural signal, not the 20M seats or the 250% growth. The next number that matters is satisfaction. Email-level habit is not the same as email-level value, and we all use email...
Reallocating IT Budgets Around Unequal AI Outcomes
. @satyanadella today: “IT budgets get reshaped by business outcomes and reallocation from other line items on the income statement.” He is right, per seat breaks when two users consume AI completely differently. Consumption pricing is the easy part. Reorganizing enterprise...