I love milestones. Times of year that mark change and give you a chance to pause and reset. I think that’s part of why I had such a hard time...
I love milestones. Times of year that mark change and give you a chance to pause and reset. I think that’s part of why I had such a hard time...
Since last Friday, my life has seemingly been consumed with thinking about what happened at Sandy Hook elementary school. Maybe it’s the just...
I have had a hard time finding the perfect to-do list system. I am a light implementer of GTD — I haven’t read the whole book, but I get...
There is a practically non-stop flow of threats to the Internet. That’s because the Internet is fundamentally empowering and therefore also...
It’s been a fascinating few days in the politics of information. Late in the day last Friday, the House Republican Study Committee released a...
Yesterday, I spent the day at a meeting on “city innovation” at Harvard’s Kennedy School, with 30 or so CIOs, CTOs, and other...
It’s been a big year for predictive analytics. I’ve been following Nate Silver’s blog on the election, and his deep data analysis...
I love halloween. I think it’s my favorite holiday. The thing that I like about it the most is that it’s one of the only days of the year...
It’s hard to find the right balance when bringing technology into our lives. I do think lots of us suffer from some form of internet /...
It’s really hard for me to comprehend what happened in NYC last night. Everyone I know is safe and sound, and the overall death toll is...
Just one of the many stories to get overshadowed by #frankenstorm today is the opening arguments of Kirtsaeng vs. Wiley in the Supreme Court. This...
I’m still frustrated with how book buying works. Totally randomly, we ended up watching the Tom Wolfe documentary on TV Friday night. It was...
I am writing this from 30,000 feet on my way to San Francisco. I have a great car service which I use every week when I travel. This morning, I...
I buy a lot of books. I find it impossible to browse the web and not stumble upon a book that looks worth reading. For instance, this one. Until...
I had the pleasure of spending the day yesterday at The Feast. I love their manifesto: Mankind is now more connected with the tools to engage...
Steven Johnson, one of my all time favorite writers and thinkers has a new book out: Future Perfect – The Case for Progress in the Networked...
Alex Hillman has a nice post on his response to Steven Johnson’s Where do Good Ideas Come From, thinking about how we continually process and...
Last night, Andy Murray won the US Open — his first grand slam victory — in an epic 5-set match (tied for the longest ever). I was...
I’ve always thought of tennis as perhaps the most difficult of sports. It’s like hitting a baseball, but while you’re running, and...