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Hal Stern

Hal Stern

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Mar 28, 2022

Shuffle Off (Not to Buffalo)

Medium informed me that I’m no longer eligible for their Partner Program (which was paying me an average of $8 a year). I don’t have enough…

Hal Stern

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Jan 3, 2022

Reading List: Q4 2021

The ninth year of keeping a reading list: I like to chronicle what I’ve read and how I’ve reacted, mostly to share my thinking about my…

Hal Stern

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Dec 29, 2021

Phish’s “Sci-Fi Solder”

Now that Phish has announced a New Year’s Eve broadcast show from “The Ninth Cube” with an obvious reference to the “Sci-Fi Soldier”…

Phish’s “Sci-Fi Solder”

Hal Stern

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Dec 29, 2021

Benjamin Rosenbaum’s “The Unraveling”

My unintended prelude to Benjamin Rosenbaum’s “The Unraveling” started with the Orthodox Kosher fish monger. Our biennial gefilte fish…

Hal Stern

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Oct 1, 2021

Reading List: Q3 2021

The usual intro: I like to chronicle what I’ve read and how I’ve reacted, mostly to share my thinking about my thinking. Books are listed…

Hal Stern

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Sep 11, 2021

Forty-Four Years of September 11

September 11, 1977: Windows on the World has been open for about five months, and it is the trendy place to have lunch and see the city…

Forty-Four Years of September 11

Hal Stern

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Jul 3, 2021

Reading List: Q2 2021

At the midpoint of the year, I’ve finished 30 books, which is slightly higher than average and much more reading given that I haven’t been…

Hal Stern

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May 22, 2021

Reunions Weekend

This is virtual Princeton Reunions weekend, the second year of the pandemic in which the annual orange and black cavalcade is virtual…

Reunions Weekend

Hal Stern

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Apr 3, 2021

Reading List: Q1 2021

The ninth year of keeping a reading list: I like to chronicle what I’ve read and how I’ve reacted, mostly to share my thinking about my…

Hal Stern

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Feb 7, 2021

The Legends Club

This week marks one year since I’ve been on an airplane. That milestone took me back to Spring Break 1981, which was the first time I took…

Hal Stern

Hal Stern

By day: CIO for R&D at a drug company. Scalable computing, data privacy, performance. Non-day: husband, parent, phan, bass player, career coach and ally.

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