Had a great lunch with two really smart folks – the following was asked, and it rattled a theme around my head. n What if you had to prove (through […]
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A friend of mine just asked me for some advice on sending surveys. This is the list I came up with. n Sending surveys is an important part of early […]
Dear Reader, I apologize for the length of this article. It’s actually two articles smashed into one. All together this post will take roughly 5 minutes to read. I generally […]
There’s a pretty big kerfuffle going on about marketing guru Seth Godin’s recent launch of Squidoo brand communities. n Godin launched a service that aggregated the conversation occuring about companies […]
I’m sitting in the conference room of the Courtyard Marriott in LA after my presentation to the International Professionals Network, I met some great members of the LA community and […]
I’m speaking at 1:30pm today (Tuesday, Oct. 6th) on how to build kick-ass Facebook Pages. I’ve pasted the slides here for reference and would love to hear what you think: […]
We’re going through some hiring right now, and every time we do a round of hiring I learn something new. Acting as a hiring manager (especially if the hire will […]
I had a good conversation this afternoon with a friend who works at Google, and we touched on ideas about how the world of search and the world of social […]
This is a great program for social media introduction moderated by Sarah Lacy. Sarah does a fantastic job. n I moderated a panel on this two weeks ago and I […]
The sub-title to this piece is “Patient-Advocates as Harbringers of Hope in the Health Care System.” n Disclaimer: I am a Libertarian-Progressive. I generally trust markets more than I trust […]
Twitter’s foray into search (through last year’s acquisition of Summize) has been commented on by every pundit under the sun. Twitter Search is has proved the benefits of real-time search […]
There’s been some speculation about what would be the Twitter of SXSW 2009. What breakout app would everyone begin to know and love. And while your answer might be foursquare, […]
Facebook Pages is the future. Seriously, it’s amazing. Scoble wrote a sweet article defending the recent facebook redesign which I don’t want to rewrite — so go read it. n […]
On Saturday, I attended The Future of Asia Redpath Seminar. It was an opportunity to learn from some incredible thinkers, I couldn’t have been happier with the mental meal I […]
MIT has conducted a recent study that seems to link socializing face to face with co-workers can lead to a 30% rise in worker productivity. This inherently makes sense, and […]
I pay attention to what smart people pay attention to. n I moderated a panel on social media yesterday for IPN, and got really deep into using facebook and twitter […]
The past three days I’ve gotten in two political arguments with folks who I perceive as creating rifts in the political process and slowing things down. The first was with […]
Happy 4th of July! Today’s a fantastic day to hang with friends, watch fireworks, dance until 4am, and engage in all sorts of merriment. n Before I head out to […]
My buddy Salman loves Uncov. To be fair, so did I — it was my favorite guilty pleasure. And before you start asking me questions like “how did it add […]
My Birthday Party is this Saturday (the 18th of October) at MR and is in celebration of Barack Obama. Come listen to music (Dave Lowensohn of Speechwriters LLC is playing […]
This guest post was written by our mechanical friends over at typealizer.com — they have leveraged the most powerful viral channel that exists, blogger’s egos. The analysis indicates that the […]
As a kid, I enjoyed producing written word. I hated the act of writing, but I enjoyed looking down and seeing my words on paper — and feeling like I’d […]
According to this article in Wired I’m in the right business n Involver, where I work, is the best platform to distribute your video content into social networks and build/manage […]
It’s plain to see that I’m an optimist, sometimes more than is socially comfortable. The ease with which I dismiss the disastrous economic decline above serves as one example of that. I wrote that the recession will benefit our political system, and, before I cut this line, as having “rewarded our company for methodical execution and ruthless efficiency by removing competitors from the landscape.” I make no mention of the disastrous effects on millions of people, and the great uncertainty that grips any well-briefed mind, because it truly doesn’t stand in the foreground of my mind (despite suffering personal loss of wealth).
Our species is running towards a precipice with looming dangers like economic decline, political unrest, climate crisis, and more threatening to grip us as we jump off the edge, but my optimism is stronger now than ever before. On the other side of that looming gap are extraordinary breakthroughs in healthcare, communications technology, access to space, human productivity, artistic creation and literally hundreds of fields. With the right execution and a little bit of luck we’ll all live to see these breakthroughs — and members of my generation will live to see dramatically lengthened life-spans, exploration and colonization of space, and more opportunity than ever to work for passion instead of simply working for pay.
Instead of taking this space to regale you with the many personal and focused changes I intend to make in 2009, let me rather encourage you to spend time this year thinking, as I’m going to, more about what we can do in 2009 to positively affect the future our culture will face in 2020, 2050, 3000 and beyond.
Clive Crook wrote a brief piece for The Atlantic, entitled “The Long Road to Healthcare.” It ends with paraphrasing Tom Daschle that the main problem with the Clinton health reform […]
I just found this, it’s a clip from a dinner I had with friends on Election Night. It was filmed and edited by my friend Giannii, who is a community […]
An article I wrote, “New Metrics For Success In Video Marketing,” appeared in MediaPost’s Video Insider blog today. Go check it out. Here’s an excerpt: Video marketing is a big […]
I’m developing a great relationship with my friends over at MediaPost, I’ve really enjoyed the contribution process, and the editors there are really great people! n My second article came […]
Here’s my schedule for SXSW 2009, courtesy of Sched. If you’d like to meetup, text me at 650-796-9815. I’m especially looking for people to interview who are relevant to trends […]