Friday, July 29, 2011

Be Afraid...

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Just as we remember where we were when certain historic events took place, many of us have indelible image of where we saw and how we reacte...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Interrogator

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Espionage by its very nature exists in a kind of moral twilight. The decisions that spies often have to make may be repugnant to their own...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Google - The Early Years

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Particularly for those of us here in the Bay Area, we hear about start ups everyday. Do you every wonder what life is really like inside tho...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The skills of disruptive innovation

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As we learn more about genetics, one of the key questions that always seems to arise is about creativity. Can we simply be born creative, or...

How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives

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Why is it that humans are so resistant to change? Perhaps in large part this comes from a fundamental flaw in our brains. That is, that the ...
Monday, July 25, 2011

A Volunteer Story

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I think we know that disasters are happening around the world with greater and greater frequency. How do most of us respond to these disaste...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Sex on the Moon

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In earlier generations, truly bright kids might have become writers or political leaders or climbers of the corporate ladder. Today they bec...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

Big girls still don't cry

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Back in November of 2010 I spoke with Rebecca Traister about her book Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for Am...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Do libertarians have a point?

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In almost every aspect of our culture, choice is a paramount virtue. From Starbucks to the long tail of the Internet, modern society and t...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The Compass of Pleasure

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If it’s true, as Di Vinci said, that "the noblest pleasure is in understanding," then perhaps we get double the pleasure from unde...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Area 51

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Winston Churchill once said of Russia that it was "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." Much the same might be said ...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Immigrants Raising Citizens

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The recent story about Jose Antiono Vargas should remind us that the story of illegal immigration is not just the story of those 12 to 13 mi...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Page One: Inside the New York Times

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Arthur C. Clarke said that "any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." This is arguably true not onl...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Infidelity Keeps Us Together

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It was Woody Allen who said that "marriage was the end of hope." To what extent was he right, particularly in the context of our ...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Newspapers R.I.P.???

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Different business sectors have faced the digital revolution in very different ways. The music business has been virtually destroyed by it; ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Where to now?

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The first decade of this new millennium has been marked by unprecedented change. Today we are arguably at the apogee of that change. How we...