Much is being made of cities right now and the importance of the urban center as a solution to humanity’s ills: TED gave its prize to The City, people got up in arms about what we spend on rural post offices, and green living is oriented mainly at people who live nowhere near the green. […]
(I’ve been reading the Ender’s Game books recently, so I feel like everything I want to write somehow springs from there.) I think competition, of the sort that is anything more than hedonic, is bad for startups. And that may just be that I’m not a terribly competitive person and therefore try to justify my […]
Having just spent a week or so with my bright, shiny new nephew (eight weeks and already twice his birth weight), I think that part of what makes relatives magical is that you are allowed to delight in them completely. I’m sitting in SeaTac while I type this and next to me is playing a […]
Imagine the moment when you can wear Google’s Project Glass spectacles. Real-time information, all the time. The ability to take video and audio, and transmit it wirelessly to another storage medium. Which means, in theory, the ability to remember absolutely everything, forever. And while I doubt many scientists at Google have thought about it, that […]
Though I was a bit distracted by the Hackathon, I still managed to listen to and watch several talks from TED while out in Palm Springs. Here are a couple of brief notes and opinions, and links to the talks themselves from TED.com when available. Billy Collins: It wasn’t shocking when Collins got a standing ovation […]
So I’m on a plane to Seattle. Middle seat, between a business guy (you can always tell who has a corporate card, they’re the only ones who buy food) and a woman in her mid-40’s with incongrously sparkly green nails. And we’re all crying. Repeatedly. To “We Bought A Zoo”. And of course we’re quiet […]
Though I was a bit distracted by the Hackathon, I still managed to listen to and watch several talks from TED while out in Palm Springs. Here are a couple of brief notes and opinions, and links to the talks themselves from TED.com when available. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein/Steven Pinker: This was a perfect example of how […]
Though I was a bit distracted by the Hackathon, I still managed to listen to and watch several talks from TED while out in Palm Springs. Here are a couple of brief notes and opinions, and links to the talks themselves from TED.com when available. Reuben Margolin: This was almost painful to watch, as Margolin literally […]
Though I was a bit distracted by the Hackathon, I still managed to listen to and watch several talks from TED while out in Palm Springs. Here are a couple of brief notes and opinions, and links to the talks themselves from TED.com when available. Susan Cain: This was one of those talks that everyone loved […]
Though I was a bit distracted by the Hackathon, I still managed to listen to and watch several talks from TED while out in Palm Springs. Here are a couple of brief notes and opinions, and links to the talks themselves from TED.com when available. Paul Gilding: It is probably not surprising that I didn’t much […]