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A small group of social terrorists have hijacked the rational discourse led by society’s most accomplished, intelligent, and promising organizations. (cross posted from NewCo Shift) Let’s start with this: Google is not a perfect company. It’s easy to cast it as an omniscient and evil villain, the leader of a millennium-spanning illuminati hellbent on world subjugation.…

I don't write here anymore. I write almost entirely on Medium now. It's not a choice I made to NOT write here, it's a choice I made to edit NewCo Shift, our new publication. It lives on Medium, but if it were a Wordpress site, well, my writing would all be on that site. It's…

(image) It's somehow fitting that today, May 25th, marks my return to writing here on Searchblog, after a long absence driven in large part by the launch of NewCo Shift as a publication on Medium more than two years ago. Since then Medium has deprecated its support for publications (and abandoned its original advertising model),…

Image (I've been writing on NewCo Shift for the most part, but I wanted my Searchblog readers to know two things: One, I'm working on getting this site totally redone, and will be posting here in the New Year. And two, I really feel awful about how I've neglected this site. All of that will…