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What if everything is as it should be?

Phoebe and I were having masala dosas for breakfast at Mylari a few weeks ago, and were talking about whether to go to the Wisdom 2.0 conference in February. I b…

Business Insider:

And now, instead of writing stories about how Snapchat is doomed, people are wondering: What's wrong with product development at Facebook?

• Why is Facebook innovation so bad that it…

Brad Feld quoting Dov Seidman:

And while they are right that hope is technically not a strategy, inspirational leaders understand one final thing:  that without hope there is no strategy. “

I've had…

When my son was two, we went to the swimming pool, where he would walk up on the 3 meter high diving board, jump into the water below, swim to the edge of the pool, climb out of the water, climb the s…

What is courage? I've often been asked about where I get my courage from - the courage to start my own company, remain self-employed through ups and downs, move across the world, start new practices, …

What's happening right now in the US with all the shootings remind me of an old statistic about suicide: That in the days after a widely publicized suicide, the suicide rate goes up dramatically. Why?…

About 20 years ago, fresh out of high school, I was at a late night jazz concert with a friend who had just begun to study medicine. I started talking about one of my favorite topics: The placebo effe…

Carl Jung:

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn theosophy by…

Where I'm from, honking is considered offensive. Here it's considered a courtesy, considerate, even.

My guess is the reason is that the traffic is so crazy you have to focus your full attention forwar…

Rick Falkvinge: 

It is quite possible to argue for the copyright monopoly from a purely utilitarian, protectionist, or mercantilist perspective, but not from a “property is good” perspective: you wil…