Category: Personal

Lance Knobel writes on security at the British Prime Minister’s office: A few years ago, when I first had to go to Downing Street, the security consisted of a policeman checking your name was on a list. If it was, you were ushered through the gates and walked to Number Ten. No one checked your…

Eugene Eric Kim at Blue Oxen Associates wrote A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools, which is quite interesting and thoughtful. In the acknowledgements, I’m listed right next to Doug Engelbart, probably one of the most influential people in this technology industry of ours over the last 30 years.

If poetry is the way to create images, even whole lines of thought with very few words, the following quote from The Economist‘s July 3rd edition is pure poetry: Just 15 years after the Velvet Revolution, the Czech Communist Party has found a new way to threaten democracy: by getting dangerously popular. What do you…

Now I'm in Amman, where the World Economic Forum's global reconciliation summit is about to take place. The World Economic Forum is best known through its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and the typically associated anti-globalization protests. If you want to know how it looks like from the inside, read this. It is very different…

I will on on the panel at the World Economic Forum's upcoming extraordinary annual meeting in Amman, Jordan, in a session on "Creating a Culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship". The background of the meeting is clearly the global topic of big role for such a transformation to be successful. I'm thrilled! How often does one…