Pecha-Kucha: twenty slides in twenty seconds. Shouldn’t all presentations be this concise, this short and this time-sensitive? Take a look and see if you can incorporate this thinking into your next presentation. Read more »

Where does natural talent come from? With no instruction at all, my second son has demonstrated that he brought something with him from “some other place” that he found a way to express. Read more »

In this video, E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize. He makes a plea on behalf of his constituents, the insects and small creatures, that we should all learn more about our biosphere. We know so little about nature, he says, that we’re still discovering tiny organisms indispensable to life; yet we’re still steadily destroying nature. Read more »

The Police took center stage on Saturday after 20-some years of being ex-super star musicians. I suspect the lure of $1M per show was too tempting. It was fun to hear the classics even if they had less power than the originals. The white audience was a real reminder of both the Colorado landscape and my age… Read more »

To luminaries of the personal computer revolution are Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Both men have a long and involved history that has often been hyped as adversarial for the possible purpose of creating the Microsoft and Apple “tribes.” Here is a WSJ interview of the two from the D Conference in 2007. Read more »

So, here we are five years after 9-11-01 and footage of that days events are still coming out from personal sources. I just happened to come across this video on Google Video. It serves as a reminder to the events that have changed our country.
What is difficult is that as it recedes in our memories, [...] Read more »