Chris O’Brien is a writer for the San Jose Mercury News who writes about all of the techy stuff that occurs in the area’s Silicon Valley. He is also, by his own estimate, an outlier. A member of the vanguard. It’s not that he’s a rebel without a cause or a Russian troll. It’s just that he and his family did something that would come across as radical—perhaps even heretical—with a majority of Americans.
He cut the cord.
He called his....