I read this over the summer, trying to get to know the thoughts of Obama better, and came away really impressed, with the clarity, candor, humility, and just general humanity and sense of purpose. He’s someone that I’m excited to watch and learn from and follow. As much as anything, I was struck by the [...]
Huggy Rao is a very smart guy who teaches and writes at Stanford — I’ve gotten to know him a little bit over the past year or so, and think very highly of him. So when he asked me to read his upcoming book, I was of course very interested.
It’s a book about how markets [...]
I liked this book — it’s a comprehensive look at the range of issues that are starting to become clear with new generations growing up on the Net — and really for all of us.
But, on the whole, I think it’s premature — and the authors really say as much — that these ideas are [...]
Briefly, then gotta get started on working in an abbreviated Thanksgiving week…
Every so often I find myself in a situation with family or work and realize that something’s different, something’s new — and I try to take myself out of the moment a little bit to notice it.
This morning at the breakfast table, as I [...]
Worth watching the whole piece. Fantastic and articulate, as always. Remix is on my nightstand now.
We’re at our first kid concert - it’s a bit of a mass of kidmanity. There’s even something like a five year old mosh pit up at the front (not kidding). It’s great, really — fun, engaged, optimistic.
It boggles my mind a little bit, though, to look around the hall and think about what [...]
Along with (I think), thousands of Stanford alums, yesterday in my in box I found an extraordinary letter from John Hennessy, Stanford’s President (and a wonderful CS professor and entrepreneur) about the current economic situation and the implications for Stanford. The letter speaks for itself, I think, but I’ll preface it by noting a few [...]
I’ve had the good fortune to visit the Stanford CS department twice this week — on Monday I visited with some of the current section leaders to talk about Mozilla some, and last night I was on a CS careers panel with my very good friends Schrep & Mauria and got to see Mehran & [...]
Not a bad novel — quirky look at a quirky town somewhere in North Dakota. Entertaining enough, but with Klosterman, I really like his essays a lot more.
I’ve been involved with OSAF since before its inception — my relationship with Mitch (and his investment in Reactivity) led us to collborate on a bunch of different things (and to become close friends), and building a new, modern sort of PIM was one of them. So over the years, I’ve been on the Board [...]