It’s Nothing Personal

March 22, 2011

There’s this saying that came out of Second-wave feminism that “the personal is political.” Personally, I’ve never agreed with it, if only because I see politics as an exercise in the collective well-being. I mean, yes, we live in a liberal democracy where individual rights are supposed to be job #1. But politics is about [...]

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Calling Bullshit

March 18, 2011

Maybe you should stop being so passive-aggressive. Maybe you should stop blowing smoke out of your ass. Maybe you should stop beating around the bush and just tell people what you really think. Maybe you should have the courage of your convictions. Maybe you start calling bullshit on whatever looks and quacks like bullshit. Maybe [...]

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Being Your Own Expert

February 18, 2011

A couple years ago, when I was invited to speak at Nokia OpenLab, I met a guy named Jari Pasanen. He was a VP at Nokia and he delivered the opening keynote. Less than a minute into his keynote, he expressed his gratitude to Nokia for letting him be himself and still climb the ladder. [...]

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Saving the World

February 10, 2011

Doesn’t saving the world strike you as an odd concept? I mean, there are no super-villains out there that are bent on world destruction, like there are in comic books or James Bond movies. Of course, there are all kinds of groups and organizations we see as threatening the world. During the Cold War it [...]

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Striking Balance

January 18, 2011

I’m not a big guy, but I’m not a small one either. I’m 6’0″ and weigh in somewhere around 175lbs. If I was a boxer, that would make me light heavyweight. As I said: not big, but exactly small. I am big enough that I’ve managed to avoid trouble most of my life. Alexa Clark [...]

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Faith and Pride

January 14, 2011

As far as I know, in most religions, vanity and pride are sins (or at least vices). I’m no theologian, but I can only guess that it has to do with putting yourself ahead of (or on par with) the divine. Conversely, in most religions, faith is considered a virtue. And it’s almost an extension [...]

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Hopping the Fish Bowl

January 4, 2011

You know that religious nut in your (extended) family or personal network? That one who mostly reads only the Bible or the Qu’ran or Dianetics. You can accuse them of a lot of things: blind faith, devotion, close-mindedness. But a lot of us do the same thing with other topics. We read mostly tech news [...]

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Speaking Up this January

January 3, 2011

So I’ve decided to hit the New Year running… or with a bang… or whatever… What I mean is that I’m really psyched to be speaking at a few events (big & small) over the next month. I’m also booked for a few other appearances in the upcoming months, but let’s take it one month [...]

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