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I absolutely loved his "Triumph of the nerds" trilogy. It's my childhood!
I would love to see a follow-up series that covers the dot com bust, the revival of Silicon Valley’s tech industry thanks to mobile and cloud tech, and the modern AI boom, starting with deep neural networks ran on GPUs and culminating with large language models.
For Triumph of the Nerds, Bob spent hours interviewing a few of us at ARDI, my Macintosh emulation company. Mat's is the only voice that made the cut. Our fridge got more air time than I did, but I'm juggling and riding a unicycle for a few seconds. "Those were fun days."

Nice to see Bob back, especially after the gut punch of Cleve Moler's death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACt6xsMt5Uk&t=456s

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I wouldn't be here if I hadn't somehow obtained and read Accidental Empires as a kid. Still no empire of my own though :(
It's always fun when an old relic pops up in ye olde RSS reader. His feed would have been one of the originals I started following 25 years ago or so.
Skimming through his posts he was also “back” to writing in 2023. Looks like he wrote 2 things then. Maybe he’ll do a longer run this time, maybe a good half dozen posts before another 3 year break?
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Neat, maybe he can do a followup on how OrangeDAO X Press Start Cap Fellowship Program for new Web3 entrepreneurs is going.
From reading that it seems that he and his crew are working on an AI chip?
Including all the mentally unwell people/trolls in the comments who have become obsessed with Bob's Minecraft server project that did not work out.

Their righteous indignation will valiantly carry forth forever! Let them never stop obsessing! "But it matters!" "It's really important!" "He's a liar, and boy our society is collapsing because of liars!". Urghh. They are in the comments here too, riding high white horses.

This reading like an em-dash enthusiast wrote it.
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This goes back a LONG way for me. I really enjoyed his Notes From The Field column in InfoWorld, which was both reliably funny and reliably interesting, from around 1987-1995.
I just discovered this and I want to learn more about the AI job you guys are doing! I’ll subscribe!
Michael Swaine tried to restart a few years ago as well. Not easy being the same you 20+ years later.

Same skill, same desire, same willingness. But the same energy is difficult to find.

I loved Swaine's Flames from DDJ. Shame I missed his revival.
Oh, nice! I have been wondering what was going on with Cringely for years. I was worried it was a health issue and am relieved to hear that that seems to not have been the case.
If I am not mistaken he had predicted that IBM will go bankrupt, did that prediction come true?