Notes From The Harvest Summit: Global Warming and AI

On Friday (11/10), I attended the Harvest Summit, at the La Crema wine estate in the Russian River Valley of California. I promised subsequent posts to share some of what I learned. You can find other posts about the event by scanning through my blog at johnpatrick.com. After the discussions about Crisis Management, which I […]

Smoking Tobacco Kills 1,200 Americans Every Day

I started smoking experimentally when I was 16, and then more while in college. When I graduated in 1967, a much older, but close family friend, told me he was diagnosed with emphysema. His doctor said if he didn’t stop smoking, he would die. He quit, me too. I began to realize smoking was harmful […]

Notes From The Harvest Summit

On Friday (11/10), I attended the Harvest Summit, an exclusive event at the La Crema wine estate in the Russian River Valley of California. The organizers described the gathering as a day during which “250 leaders outstanding in their fields will be thinking, talking, tasting, and transforming.” The conference was a celebration of the art […]

Apple iPhone X

UPS tracking shows the iPhone X is in Brookfield, Connecticut after arriving from Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Before that the iPhone was in Louisville, KY. Before that the iphone was in Anchorage, Alaska, where it arrived from Shanghai,  China having come from ZhengZhou,  China, two cities with a combined population of 35 million. I marvel at how […]

Home Attitude Is Here: Layman’s Guide to Home Automation

Home Attitude is here. The book went live on Amazon Tuesday night. The Kindle version will be available on or before November 27. It seems like a long time to make the conversion, but there are a lot of files, detailed steps, and reviews involved. Now comes the hard part, marketing. Step 1 was to […]