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I obsessively read I, Cringely when I was in college in the late 90s. It was the Stratechery of its time, and taught me an immense amount about the tech busines
by jonstewart 8y ago
I obsessively read I, Cringely when I was in college in the late 90s. It was the Stratechery of its time, and taught me an immense amount about the tech business.
- velcrovan 8y agoI read it too in highschool. I even found a Dover Art book containing a copy of that suited-frog spot art sketch he used and cribbed it for my blog. Wonder what old Cringely is up to these days
- JeremyReimer 8y agoYou can find out on his blog (cringely.com). The TL;DR is that he mostly does consulting for startups and writes his own columns on the tech industry at his own pace. A few years back he did a Kickstarter for a $100 Minecraft server with his teenage kids that failed. The blowback from the failure and his poor communication about it has at times taken over the blog comments. For a while he did a series of columns exposing the decline and mismanagement at IBM; he eventually turned these into an ebook that I purchased and thought was a reasonably interesting read. More recently he had cataract surgery and had to move to a new home after his old one was damaged in the California wildfires.
- charlesism 8y agoI don't know that anyone is popular, yet respected enough, to be an equivalent today. I'd say Leo Laporte had a similar impact circa 2010. Maybe Kara Swisher? Maybe Marco Arment? Some Youtuber? At any rate, none of those exactly fit the bill, because Cringely's two "Nerds" documentaries† hold a special place in popular tech reporting history. † https://youtu.be/sX5g0kidk3Y https://youtu.be/sX5g0kidk3Y † https://youtu.be/Pk2BWphDfvc https://youtu.be/Pk2BWphDfvc