05 Mar 09 Personal Growth (0)
03Mar
In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes [...]
03Mar
The best measure of a blog is not how many people it reaches, it’s how much it changes what you do. Changes your posture, your writing, your transparency, your humility. What blogging has done for me is made me think. I get to think about how the outside world will understand something I’m trying to [...]
31Jan
Vogue Paris had a very interesting editorial featuring a series of photographs of the 20-years-old model Eniko Mihalik portrayed in the age of 10, 20, … 50, 60 respectively. It’s quite amazing how the overall look can be so malleable, achieved (perhaps not so) simply with tricks of the trade like hairdo, facial expression, [...]
01Dec
From Linda Tischler (Fast Company, Senior Writer): Marcel Wanders talked about the fairy tale that informed the design of the new Mondrian Hotel in Miami, and the fear he has to face down every time he begins a new project. John Maeda spoke of design’s hidden return on investment – its impact on an organization’s human [...]
07Nov
Last Saturday, I was invited to a business conference in Düsseldorf. Among nine exceptional presenters - including Bill Clinton - one clearly stood out: Bertrand Piccard. He is one of the century’s last great adventurers. After failing two times, he realized the Jules Verne fantasy of flying around the world in a balloon, the Breitling [...]
07Nov
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, recently visited a slum in India and reported that he “met this young man on the street who told me that he had used Wikipedia to pass his 11th grade exams.” Wikipedia is an open source project that has fundamentally changed how we access information. How could we apply this [...]
05Nov
20Oct
There’s an outstanding interview with Vinod Khosla on PBS’s web site. Vinod Khosla is an influential venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. He was a cofounder of Sun Microsystems and later a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, which helped fund Google and Amazon. In 2004 he started his own company, Khosla Ventures. Here are [...]
