April 28th, 2008
I returned yesterday from my first visit to Russia — which consisted of a week in St. Petersburg and Moscow — and am struggling to provide some observations and impressions that won’t seem superficial to friends and colleagues in both countries. One reason I’m sensitive about this is that I often meet people in other […]
February 10th, 2008
It was a big deal in the United States when we lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. Among the many arguments in favor of such a change was that 18 year old citizens could join the army, fight for their country, get a driver’s license, get married, and generally perform all sorts of […]
November 2nd, 2007
I brought along an interesting book on my trip to Rome last weekend, and thought I’d recommend it to those of you who have the good luck, or bad luck (depending on your perspective) of managing geeks. The book is Leading Geeks, by Paul Glen; it’s about 250 pages of straightforward reading, and qualifies reasonably […]
March 21st, 2007
I assume that you’ve seen this YouTube video already — after all, roughly 1.5 million people have downloaded it in the past few days. But if you haven’t — and if you’d like to see a hilarious mashup of Apple’s famous “1984″ commercial, together with a monotonous commentary by Hillary Clinton — here it is:
