Humpty Dumpty in Oakland

Dave's Home Page

This is the Home Page of Dave Grossman from the Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area, California <I>(Originally from Evanston, Illinois)</I>

Is Substack for sellouts?

A recording from Angela Hollowell's live video

Man Finds $1 Million Worth of Yu-Gi-Oh Cards in a Dumpster

It was already a sordid tale of online drama, blurry photographs, and erratic TikToks. Then his mom started posting.

Derek Chatman (@southsidekingsseries) • Threads, Say more

54 Followers • 296 Threads • Derek Chatman: From South Jamaica Queens - Roosevelt Exit 21. Turning street stories into legacy. Southside Kings is more than a book. It’s a journey. See the latest...

The end of ownership: the zero-marginal-cost economy

Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Bluesky is a record store

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Searching for the True Price of Public Paintings in Oakland

Sorell Raino-Tsui helps connect Oakland's muralists with customers who can pay them fairly for their work. But what if he's helping hasten gentrification?

Substack Doesn't Want You to Leave - Aaron Ross Powell

Substack's business model is unsustainable—unless they lock all their writers in.

San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee From $4,500 Rents

When automation-software company executive David Nichols and his wife were preparing to start a family last year, he learned that the rent on his San Francisco office was set to jump 50 percent. So he picked up and moved to Portland, Oregon.

Thoughts on the Bluesky public incident write-up

Back on April 4, the social media site Bluesky suffered a pretty big outage. I was delighted to discover that one of their engineers, Jim Calabro, published a public writeup about it: April 2026 Ou…

The great vibes divergence

Why does San Francisco feel so weird during this tech boom while Oakland is more or less still Oakland?

Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game ; [with a new afterword]

Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and p…