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Oct 10, 2026
A deep analysis of the computer scientist's most quoted line — the 1971 Xerox PARC meeting where Alan Kay says he said it, the fuller version with the Newton's-laws corollary, the 1982 InfoWorld article that gives the earliest known print sighting, the 1963 Dennis Gabor sentence it descends from, and the Drucker and Lincoln attributions that the record does not support.
Oct 10, 2026
A deep dive on Michael Dell — the Houston-born entrepreneur who started PC's Limited in a University of Texas dorm room in 1984 with $1,000, took it public four years later, became the youngest Fortune 500 CEO in American history at 27, fought Carl Icahn to take his company private in 2013, and turned it into the AI-infrastructure giant behind the largest technology deal ever; his five defining reflections on playing nice but winning, on never being the smartest person in the room, on ideas as commodities and execution as everything, on failure as an ingredient of success, and on learning more from customers than from competitors; and the legacy of a founder who has given more than a billion dollars to his alma mater and pledged $6.25 billion to fund investment accounts for 25 million American children.
Sep 29, 2026
A deep analysis of Clarke's Third Law — the sentence people quote constantly and source almost never. Where it really first appeared in 1968, why it was not in the 1962 book everyone credits, and what it actually claims about observers, opacity, and the technology we no longer understand.