I don’t know how to fix our educational system… But I know we can do better. I just finished watching Waiting for Superman (a movie you should watch if you haven’t). The punchline of the movie is something we all know well: schools in America aren’t doing a good enough job at educating our kids. [...]
It seems to me like the nature of text and reading is changing… The other day, a friend of mine at work remarked about the fact that we no longer “read” that much. The comment came up in the context of discussing a recent book that none of us had read. I disagreed with her. [...]
It has been a long time since I have written here, but recently I have felt compelled to rejoin the discussion “out here” in the Internets. The primary reason why I feel like I need to start writing again is because I am frankly starting to get annoyed and tired with all the pessimism that [...]
In the past, when we looked back on historical events, we were able to decipher correlation from causation after the fact…but those with military, political, or social power controlled the interpretation that became widely known. This power to determine history, in the short or even longer term, was made weaker by the invention of the [...]
This post was spurred by a discussion with @humbertomoreira and another non-twitter friend that overlapped this afternoon. One of the things we are currently experiencing as a result of the explosion of Internet usage is at once both a deconstruction and an expansion of our conception of personal identity. And this is radically shifting our [...]
If we gathered the smartest financial and economic minds together and locked them in a room for a week I think we could solve the current economic conundrum… But instead, our system of representative democracy forces compromise between brilliant ideals and half-baked social plans motivated by re-election cycles. Perhaps this is what the founders wanted [...]
The Storm Is Back You may have noticed that we are out of the eye of the storm. As I mentioned in my last post on the economy (Rules of Nature), the current process of economic unwinding is going to be long and painful, and we are still in the early stages of the process. [...]
As Twitter grows in popularity, a number of my friends who have heard me talking about it have started asking me why I like Twitter so much. Although I enjoy chatting about the topic and am glad to do so anytime, I thought writing a post on it might be helpful. Here are a few [...]
(I wrote this a few weeks back in the cab on the way to the airport leaving Shanghai…) I am wrapping up what has been a phenomenal trip to Shanghai and Beijing. I finally made the trip I have been wanting to make for a decade, and I’m so glad that I did. A Nation [...]
Social Networking in My Life I have recently had the rewarding experience of meeting a few people IRL (in-real-life) that I had only previously “known” through Twitter and the Interwebs. This experience caused me to think back to how social-networking has changed the way I meet people. Upon reflection, I realized that I have been [...]