This morning’s dream was a bit out-of-the blue. The last time I was in the Santa Clara region was around two and a half decades ago. Believe it or not I had a state of the art triband mobile ‘phone then. One that would work in Europe Japan and USA. It was a Motorola and the geezer in the hotel could not understand why they sold such advanced ‘phones in Europe and not in the USA. He had ‘phone envy.  We were there for Semicon. West to meet and talk with ASML about EUV. I was also to meet two members of the American part of the Toltec group one in San Francisco and the other by flying to Hollywood Burbank.  We also met people from the Singapore development bureau.

The problem I have with the USA is that a lot of it looks samey to me.

The part of the country indicated in the dream remains a VC and start-up hotbed. I had another dream about Stanford recently. Why?

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Clearly, I am no longer a young gun…

~20 billion US in deals in a quarter is a shit load of money.

The whole whacko-idea start-up whatchamacallit continues to pop up in dreams from time to time. I have over the years contacted a number of VCs just to see if I get completely ignored or if there is a “polite” follow up. The bigger the VC the more likely that I get some kind of response. If I did have an idea worth pursuing the portcullis is not down and the oil on the parapets is not yet on heat. The response has been better from the USA and Germanophone countries. It has been very (piss) poor in the UK. One might speculate as to reasons.

It is my assessment that whacko is more acceptable in California, diversity more welcome.

I am not a fan of the likes of Facebook and social media in general though I do blog. I would not fan-boy the likes of Zuckerberg or Musk. I would be very wary of such people, powerful and possibly dangerous.

The thing about the internet is that you never know who or what is reading what you are drivelling on about.

I doubt that I will be getting rejected at USA immigration anytime soon. Based on my published views I could easily be refused entry. The atmosphere there seems highly toxic and unwelcoming these days, not an attractive place to me.

So it does not matter if I know the way or not…