Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Thinking We’re Alone

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Back in the late 1980s, one-hit-wonder Tiffany burst on the scene (or at least burst into malls across the nation). She’s been making music ever since, and I say “good for her!” that she’s still doing what she loves.

I hadn’t thought of her in a long while (and even when she was briefly a big deal, I never listened to her music), but I bring this up because of a cool documentary I saw in Netflix yesterday called I Think We’re Alone Now. It was terrific, so if you’re on Netflix, check it out. I have known plenty of people just like the lunatics featured in the documentary, and if we’re ever together and you buy me a couple of beers, I could tell you some stories. Check out the trailer: (more…)

The More Things Change…

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As readers who’ve been with me for a while are well aware; I’ve made no bones about my feelings of many of today’s Wall Street darlings such as Facebook®, Twitter®, and so forth.

Although I criticize them, it doesn’t mean, nor should it be misconstrued that I’m belittling their original products or services. I believe now as I did when introduced the ability to connect or rapidly deploy information is groundbreaking. How these companies are suddenly worth Billions if not tens of Billions of dollars, while hardly generating any revenue let alone profit – is quite another. (more…)