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Yearly Archives: 2019

HomeYearly Archives: 2019

A litmus test for parents of would-be pro athletes

I recently had dinner with a friend who’s plugged into professional sports. We got to talking about the across-the-board athleticism in pro sports. Take football: all the different sizes and body types mask the underlying reality that even...

December 12, 2019 toddneff #genius, #prosports, #youthsports 0 Comments

One story, two stories: the fictions of Fox News

What you think depends on what you read or watch. This applies broadly: a romance reader will see the world somewhat differently than a lover of thrillers, both by instinct and through the influence of what feeds their brains. This becomes a...

December 7, 2019 toddneff #ABC, #CBS, #CNN, #FoxNews, #NBC, #newsbias, #NYT 0 Comments

How to justify spending three grand over four days

I sat at my desk in Denver on a recent October night faced with a question: does it make sense to spend three grand over four days? On the surface, it made no sense, given that we as a family generally run a slight but very real financial budget...

October 23, 2019 toddneff #FinancialDecisions, #LifeDecisions, #SantaMonica, #Travel 0 Comments

Impeach Trump: what’s the downside, really?

People who despise Trump will continue to despise Trump. People who somehow don’t despise Trump will continue to somehow not despise him.

September 25, 2019 toddneff #ImpeachTrump, #Trump 1 Comments

What you can learn from Michael Avenatti

If she’s going to do the story with or without you, and you’re not going to look good either way, you’re better off talking to the reporter.

June 20, 2019 toddneff Michael Avenatti, PR strategy, Vanity Fair 0 Comments

A Q&A with Velodyne

I wrote quite a bit about Velodyne in The Laser That’s Changing the World — David Hall, the company’s founder and CEO, is a brilliant engineer who developed the lidar sensor that paved they way for the first great leaps in...

May 23, 2019 toddneff autonomous vehicles, lidar, Velodyne 0 Comments

This is in 1/210,100th of the sky

With the Hubble Legacy Field, what it doesn’t capture is as remarkable as what it does.

May 14, 2019 toddneff #HubbleLegacyField 0 Comments

Good times at ILMF 2019

The 2019 edition of the International Lidar Mapping Forum is a wrap. The folks at Diversified Communications provided a booth (thank you!), which gave me the opportunity to hang out and chat with a bunch of interesting folks for the better part...

January 31, 2019 toddneff ILMF, lidar, lidar history 0 Comments

Elon Musk is right: lidar is a crutch

Elon Musk was right when he called lidar a “crutch” when it came to self-driving cars. Where he’s not right, though, is that the technology’s crutchitude is somehow a reason not to employ lidar—which uses lasers to scan the world around them...

January 31, 2019 toddneff autonomous vehicles, elon musk, lidar 0 Comments

At ILMF 2019, a mobile lidar story about Afghanistan 2003

I’m at the International Lidar Mapping Forum in Denver for the third-straight year. The first year, I came to get some sense of the lidar landscape for a book project I was thinking about proposing. That experience distilled into the opener for...

January 29, 2019 toddneff 0 Comments
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