In many ways the Aucland TV ad, shown below was great. It won a Silver Lion in Cannes … Continue reading “The Inspiration for the Aucland TV Ad”

The Financial Times ran an amazing story on three French entrepreneurs in Afghanistan. I loved their quote on … Continue reading “Entrepreneurship matchup: France versus Afghanistan”

Massim Nicholas Taleb’s new book is insightful and surprisingly entertaining. While it has no predictive value – black … Continue reading “Speaking of uncertainty: read The Black Swan”

In many ways, I am not a typical entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs are often risk taking, creative types who do … Continue reading “The nature of entrepreneurship: randomness, trial and error, and how intelligence can get in the way”

Friends keep wanting to invite us to showers, bachelor parties, rehearsal dinners, weddings. Where does this sense of … Continue reading “The Theory of Social Obligation”

Like many road warriors, I have come to realize that WIFI coverage is much less prevalent than I … Continue reading “Unlimited Wireless Broadband for $19.99 / Month”

Tony Blair is probably the most gifted politician of his generation. He is smart, open minded and a … Continue reading “Read Tony Blair’s essay in The Economist”

Silverjet is a new all business airline flying between New York and London and competing with Eos, MAXjet … Continue reading “Fly Silverjet to London”

You might argue that Google is taking share away from Yahoo little by little and therefore should not … Continue reading “Google should buy Yahoo”

George Meyer just wrote an amazing satirical essay in the New Yorker on the addiction to conferences. Check … Continue reading “For the love of conferences :)”

By most measures these are the best of times. We live longer, healthier lives than ever before. Our … Continue reading “Fear and uncertainty in the time of prosperity”

Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of attending the book launch party organized by the Czech Center. The … Continue reading “Vaclav Havel’s To the Castle and Back is both absurdly funny and informative”

It is my true pleasure to announce that I received my green card! It’s only a temporary 2 … Continue reading “It has arrived!”

As much as we think of ourselves as extremely rational and intelligent beings, there is a growing body … Continue reading “Top 10 ways to make better decisions”

To some extent most of the large cities around the world are the same: cosmopolitan, diverse, offering tons … Continue reading “I love New York!”