
The weekly Throwback Thursday usually hits on Thursday but with vacation and business travel my schedule has been a little crazy. So, now that I'm settled back at SVB world headquarters, I figured I'd bust out Throwback Thursday v.4 - and this time around we focus on 1980 Truth is, 1980 actually began in 1977/78. Corporate rock ruled. Disco was dead. The Clash, The Heads and punk kept us honest and hopeful. Prince was on his way to breaking out. Kurtis Blow (above) rocked us with "The Breaks," Rush scored a [...]

It was a balmy 70 degrees today in our little suburb northwest of Boston. My wife opened up some windows to let the fresh air in, and I started sweating from the heat while working though my weekend chores, even though I was only wearing jeans and a t-shirt. It was preferable to digging out from under a January blizzard, but it just didn't feel natural. A ferocious wind picked up after the sun sank behind the western hills. I was out on the patio just prior to writing this, watching the silhouettes of the trees behind our [...]