• The Apartment

    Growing Up In The Back of the Yards Until I turned sixteen, home was 4636 South Ashland Avenue, in the heart of Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. It was a neighborhood built by immigrants and made infamous by Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.  The Jungle exposed the brutal conditions of…

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  • Atlas Shrugged Redux (AI Rewrite)

    Preamble: This article was generated using ChatGPT with the input being this blog article Atlas Shrugged that I wrote to about HP’s changing fortunes during the mid 1990s onward.  The prompt I gave ChatGPT was “rewrite this article [copied original article] a New York time article.  Interesting to contrast the…

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  • Atlas Shrugged

    I read Ann Rand’s novel, the Fountain Head, in High School and loved it.  I had intended to go on and read the book she wrote after that, Atlas Shrugged, but just never got around to it.  However, I never stopped thinking that the title was just so perfect.  It’s…

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Hello,

I’m David

I live in San Francisco with my wife Debbie. We have two boys, both young adults and a wonderful Golden doodle named Chester. I am a three decade veteran of tech, having worked for two iconic companies, HP and VMware. I grew up in the Back of the Yards on Chicago’s Southside, a neighborhood made famous by Upton Sinclair’s book – “The Jungle”.

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