Monthly Archives: November 2008

Being an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley

I attended a panel at a University of Illinois alumni dinner the other night and had the fortune of seeing Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) interview Max Levchin (Slide), Jawed Karim (YouTube) and Scott Banister (Zivity) about various entrepreneurial topics. I recorded about 30 minutes of it, but here are the first two questions summarized and the [...]

Candy Colored Skies

As I took off for London, the sky was so beautiful. The clouds looked like airy whipped cream and the sky was colored like various shades of cotton candy.  The spaces between the clouds where rock formations jutted out like skyscrapers looked like sharp slivers of dark chocolate.  This was quite possibly one of the [...]

My Rolly, I show you it.

I’m an early adopter and a glutton for punishment. I buy lots of new shiny gadgets before they have had their full bake time. Two way pagers, phones, one off gadgets with proprietary plugs, cameras, wifi gizmos, etc. Every now and then there’s a true gem of a product that I just can’t get enough [...]