Truly my 2nd post because I created this newsletter on my birthday last month. That was the day I decided Wirepine deserved a life outside of my work lab where it had languished in obscurity lo those many years.
Yesterday I filed with Sonoma County and Wirepine becomes a legit business next month. I started my first business in LA when I was 20 something - I wrote apps for local government. I was a dBASE (!) wizard and I called my company Creative Computing. Soon I went back to school to get my MBA but for a while I was the final boss.
I spent the last year living on a mountain and roaming the West - big biz/big tech detox after over 20 years at Microsoft. In spring I moved off the mountain and settled in Sonoma County. I started helping friends and fam use tech to run their small businesses. My latest project is for a local nonprofit that's doing good work. It's fun.
My hope for Wirepine is enabling small business and nonprofits to meaningfully improve their lives and increase their impact with tech.
I'll post once or twice a week and mostly it'll center on tech for small biz and nonprofits but I'll for sure pen some tech retrospectives/futures and wax poetic as my mood strikes. Regardless of topic - this is a doom and gloom free page.
*DALL-E or AI generated images are the source of much entertainment for me - this is the first thing it came up with for “first!”