Big Tech Earnings โ April 29, 2026 ๐ฆ Happy FOMC Day Earnings Brief ยท Big Tech ยท Q1 2026 Mega-Cap Earnings Season Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft & Amazon report tonight Charles Burnette April 29, 2026 After Market Close Four of the world’s largest technology companies report quarterly earnings today, Wednesday, April 29, 2026, after the market…
Leadership Lesson: When professional colleagues capitulate to pressure by participating in toxic conformity that compromises their personal integrity, they often end up watching as the entire organization pays the price. Undermining a targeted leaderโs value to facilitate their removal may satisfy personal agendas and board objectives, but the resulting erosion of institutional knowledge, weakened execution,…
RSAC 2026: The Future Arrived Faster Than Security Was Ready For SecOps Intelligence RSAC 2026 — Full Recap March 23–26 · San Francisco Analysis & Recap The Future Arrived Faster ThanSecurity Was Ready For RSAC 2026 was the 35th annual gathering of the global cybersecurity community at San Francisco’s Moscone Center — and the clearest…
Tailored Talent โ Conversation Series The PE-Backed CEO Playbook Most CEOs stepping into a PE-backed role for the first time underestimate how much of the job is about alignment before the work begins. The deal model, the sponsor relationship, the board you build around yourself. Getting that right before the company is running is what…
The Great Divide โ AI, Wealth & You The Family Financial Review March 2026 ยท Special Report AI & The Economy The AI Divide: WhoWins and How YouCan Be One of Them Artificial intelligence promises to create extraordinary wealth, but the world’s largest money manager warns it may leave most people behind. Here’s what that…
Charles’s Thought of the Day โ The Right Kind of Likable Charles’s Thought of the Day The Right Kind of Likable โฆ Likability is not one thing โ it is a constellation of traits: charisma, camaraderie, authenticity, aura, and empathy, all wrapped up in how you engage with the world and how the world engages…
The Fracture Line โ OpenAI, the Pentagon & the Ethics of Autonomous War Analysis ยท Technology & Defense ยท March 2026 AI Ethics & National Security The Fracture Line When OpenAI’s head of robotics walked away over a Pentagon deal, she didn’t just resign. She exposed the gap between Silicon Valley’s ethical promises and the…
“๐๐จ๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ. ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ญ๐ก๐ฒ; ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ ๐.” In 1966, Bob Fitch captured this article image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Jesse Jackson at Penn Center on St. Helena Island, per Benjamin Watson, it was near Frogmore, South…
For a decade, “Learn to Code” was the ultimate career cheat code. From bootcamps to high school curriculums, the message was clear: Master Python or JavaScript, or get left behind. But as we navigate 2026, the tides have turned. The arrival of sophisticated AI agents hasn’t just tweaked the industry; it has inverted the value…
Meet Matt Hall and John Watkinson, the coโfounders of Larva Labs and the original creators of CryptoPunks, one of the first major NFT art collections on Ethereum. Who Matt and John are They are Canadian software developers andย artistsย who met studying computer science in the 1990s and have collaborated ever since.โ Together they created Larva Labs,…
