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I have a great deal of respect for the people who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of solutions that help everyone in the world. Notably, Karen Armstrong delivered a speech (found via Chris) at the TED conference this year discussing the current problems with religion in the world. I have tremendous respect for her [...]

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
An effective leader is not an autocrat. The best leaders who build the most support and achieve the most lasting success [...]

Your screeching smoke detector wakes you up and you smell smoke. Adrenaline is pumped throughout your system and you’re on your feet at the doorway, staring at a hazy room with flames in the background. What are you doing to make this situation better?
You’re at a family gathering during the holidays. Everyone is having a [...]

Following Ted following Kottke following Hanna, here is the list of cities in which I spent at least one night in 2007:

San Diego, CA
Richardson, TX
Vancouver, BC
Malibu, CA
Santa Clarita, CA
Fallon, NV
Carpinteria, CA
Sunnyvale, CA
Mountain View, CA
Big Sur, CA
Woodland Hills, CA
Kennedy Meadows, CA
San Francisco, CA
Berkeley, CA
Walnut Creek, CA
Beaver Creek, CO

So I’m leaving San Diego and Eventful to join a startup in Berkeley and work on Project Agape. Instead of trying to regurgitate my own elevator pitch on what they do, I’ll let them say it (get your buzzword bingo card out):
The goal of all this is what we call “equal opportunity activism.” We’re trying [...]

We Americans have been taught that safety and security should be the highest goals of our lives. You should strive to work a “safe job” with “good benefits” so you can raise your children in the same fashion, perpetuating the cycle of excruciating mundanity until the guys you pay for your security cause the nuclear [...]

Recently, Jason Kottke wrote about how Facebook is “a step sideways or even backwards (towards an AOL-style service) for the web”. Essentially, he argues that because nearly all data on Facebook is in their “walled garden”, inaccessible by Google and other non-members on the open web, the service is ultimately doomed. [...]

What follows is the briefest of summaries about my feelings on parenthood.
Most people suck. My parents were (separately) very good at teaching me relevant things for life and now I’m a pretty good person for it. Kids are expensive and time-consuming, but I feel a little guilty not imparting good sense and knowledge on at [...]

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!Henry David Thoreau

There is a dreadful anxiety surrounding nudity in some modern countries, most notably the United States. [...]

You’re up late in Widener Library on the Harvard campus, studying for your MCAT to get into Johns Hopkins Medical School. There’s a familiar face at one of the tables next to you — it’s that kid who never shows up for lecture and is constantly struggling through the same material that you and your [...]