At first my self imposed rule was that I would only accept invitations from people that I really knew. Then I started viewing there lists of friends and saw other people that I knew but had not invited me. So I started inviting them to become my friends. Recently, I found myself accepting an invitation … Continue reading
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Fire for Sucess
My wife keeps asking me to share some of my business management experience. Frankly, I never think of myself as a manager although I have managed people most of my life and I actually did a pretty good job at it if one looks at the results. So here goes: I have been advising a young … Continue reading
Happy Y-Chromosome Day
I just meet with my father, my two sons and my three grandsons (seven copies of the same Y-Chromosome). I know of and other four copies (my father’s brother’s, a second cousin, a nephew and grand nephew). Of course there must be more copies but I do not know who possesses them. The copies that … Continue reading
Hey buddy can you spare a life?
I just read something extremely inspiring that I want to share. Please read the article in Newsweek about Mikkel Vestergaard. This Danish man focused his creativity on developing simple products that save lives in African on a grand scale. The article tells of the development of a LifeStraw which is a $3 gadget that lets … Continue reading
How to spend you time when you retire
Well I am not exactly retired. I have just reversed ratios. Instead of working five days and taking off two each week (like I really got two days off back then), I take off five days and work two (well it sometimes is a bit more). When I got to Europe or Asia for work, … Continue reading
Social Network becomes Social Net WORK
Being the curious guy that I am, I tend to sign up on a lot of web sites which I rarely use. I f course I tried out the social networking when the first came out. For instance, I jump on Friendster as soon as it launched since my friend, Ram was an investors. … Continue reading
Video and me
In 1966, when I was working on bio feedback (brain waves), my friend and colleague, Peter Harris, and I got the idea (actually I think it was Peter that had the idea) to see if we could put up letters on a screen. At that time we use an ASR-33 teletype as are main input … Continue reading
The Accidental Mind by David J. Linden This book demonstrates that evolution never looks back especially when it comes to brain development. When I learned how are brain is actually structured and functions I could only think of cities like Mumbai and Los Angeles (they are really well designed in comparison to our brains). Our … Continue reading
GPS and the collective unconciousness
I bought a portable GPS for our trip in Italy and France. The unit I got was the Nuvi 360. It can be used in a car, walking or on a bicycle and gives the appropriate directions for the type of transportation used. I bought a special memory card that has European information in it. Since … Continue reading
This will (should) make you think
Below you will find a description of a project by Chris Jordan that I think is excellent. You can find the site here. By the way, speaking of excellent. We are in Tuscany for the week and it does not really get much better than this. I am definitly coming back as an Italian in … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 