Perry de Havilland speaks for me on this, too:
Classical liberals and libertarians are often accused of being ‘utopian’ because of our reliance of the self correcting mechanism of markets. “That assumes people act rationally!” our critics say.
Nothing could be further from the truth. We know people do not act rationally, oh good grief you statists […]
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Lauren and Rishi and I all did. Last night, we three Qik colleagues were baking cookies and talking important work matters at 4AM when Bhaskar (our bossman) called and told us that the next task for the 24 Hours @ Sundance contestants was to bring at least 50 people to OUR CONDO for an after-party. […]
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I cannot comment further.
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We’re about halfway through 24 HOURS @ SUNDANCE. So far, so fun and surreal. I love seeing people say they’ve been glued to their screens all day! We’ve got Ashton on Twitter now, too (I got him to confirm on video that it’s really him).
So much is happening that I can’t condense it […]
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My friends Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh created the Silicon Valley Junto, an occasional invitation-only meeting that brings together all sorts of interesting people for a stimulating conversation. Somehow, I scammed them into inviting me, too. My schedule hadn’t permitted me to attend since 2006, so was elated to get to one today.
The topic for […]
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Here’s the press release. Astonishingly, lots of people like to read these things!
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I’m so wiped out from all of the prep for this that a video post seemed the easiest way to explain what I’m doing with the movie star and Mr. Digg this weekend.
Ashton has been a great sport about all the press involved (he also has a film premiering at Sundance, amongst other projects […]
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Amongst her other multitude of accomplishments, she raised at least one fine son, my friend Brian, who has been a massive influence on me. He and his family are very much in my thoughts and (sorry, Brian) prayers right now.
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I wish that Mr. Soderbergh and Mr. Del Toro could live in Cuba, not as the pampered VIPs that they are when they visit today, but as Cubans do, with no United States Constitutional rights, with ration cards entitling them to tiny portions of provisions that the stores don’t even stock anyway, with chivatos surveilling […]
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Or maybe not so random. These quotes are sticking with me lately.
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
-George Eliot
I came to feel that the most loving thing I could do for anyone was to tell them how it was with me and share my imperfections with them. When I did this, most people […]
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Qik has really spoiled me for old fashioned digital video recording; having to hook the camera up to the computer, upload the file to the PC, process it, upload it to a service like Vimeo…Well, I’m just far too lazy for that now. When all those cameras can stream straight to the web like I […]
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Sure, I have to cross the 101 and walk along the euphemistically termed “wetlands” (it’s a swamp) behind Oracle HQ, but I also get to see stuff like this (click the thumbnail for larger image):
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Oh, this is going to be fun.
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It was lovely to reconnect with one of the most kind-hearted and wonderful people I know, Mrs. Michelle Oshen Feldman, at the Crunchies. I hadn’t seen her for almost a year, and we missed one another in Paris last month, so we were long overdue to catch up. It was really, really lovely to see […]
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