Seedwalker

Brain Pickings‘ ever brilliant Maria Popova shared 5 poignant letters of fatherly advice from some of history’s most pre-eminent Dads – F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leroy Pollock (Jackson Pollock’s Dad), Ronald Reagan, astronaut Marion Carpenter, and John Steinbeck. My favorite is Fitzgerald’s excellent list of things to worry/not worry about in a 1933 letter to his [...]

A lot can happen in a year. This time last year at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, entrepreneurs were bemoaning the fact that innovations in hardware were not funded as well as software. Last week, TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hosted the first ever Hardware Alley spotlighting various hardware projects, including MakerBot’s 3D printers and the MinuteKey kiosk, “the [...]

I am obsessed with the twin ideas of innovation and invention as the engines that propel us forward. And its not the idea of reaching a destination that interests me as much as the process of getting there, because the process disciplines our brains to think creatively, leapfrog real or imaginary boundaries – and that [...]

Larry Page took over as CEO of Google in April 2011 and in July 2011 Google went on to announce the impending closure of Google Labs, the company’s experimental playground used to bring new features to users. I remember thinking “is this the beginning of the end?” As it turns out, it could well bookend [...]

There are other worlds than this one, and if there is no air to breathe, we will simply have to make it. So says Sir Peter Weyland, CEO of Weyland Corporation, a worldwide leader in emerging technologies that launches the first privatized industrial mission to leave the planet Earth…sometime in the future. Weyland is a fictional [...]

I’m a firm believer in the triple threat of application, audacity and opportunism when it comes to making a go of any project – be it finding a new job, a new baby sitter or a new business idea. I recently read this post on Brain Pickings (one of my favorite blogs) that introduced me [...]