Last year I bought a 2008 BMW Z4. I've desired one of these cars ever since the last time I lived in California, in 2001. I was working for an early web software company called ArsDigita, and their B…
My mom built a small software empire in Denmark, starting in 1983, and building it to market leading 50-person company in 1993 when she sold it.
She got started right as the IBM PC was being invented.…
This is right up my alley. I love stories about our collective superstitions - things we take way too seriously, but for which the rationale doesn't add up. Bike helmets and airport screenings come t…
What if everything is as it should be?
Phoebe and I were having masala dosas for breakfast at Mylari a few weeks ago, and were talking about whether to go to the Wisdom 2.0 conference in February. I b…
And now, instead of writing stories about how Snapchat is doomed, people are wondering: What's wrong with product development at Facebook?
- Why is Facebook innovation so bad that it…
Brad Feld quoting Dov Seidman:
And while they are right that hope is technically not a strategy, inspirational leaders understand one final thing: that without hope there is no strategy. “
I've had…
When my son was two, we went to the swimming pool, where he would walk up on the 3 meter high diving board, jump into the water below, swim to the edge of the pool, climb out of the water, climb the s…
What is courage? I've often been asked about where I get my courage from - the courage to start my own company, remain self-employed through ups and downs, move across the world, start new practices, …
What's happening right now in the US with all the shootings remind me of an old statistic about suicide: That in the days after a widely publicized suicide, the suicide rate goes up dramatically. Why?…
About 20 years ago, fresh out of high school, I was at a late night jazz concert with a friend who had just begun to study medicine. I started talking about one of my favorite topics: The placebo effe…
