- China kids video
I had the great joy of spending six weeks in China back in 2003. When returning from my time spent there I really had the desire to go and live in China for at least a year. The culture is so distinctly different from the US.
It was getting off the beaten path, away from the [...]
- Further proof of drug use at NASA?
As much as I wanted to, I never did get to go off to Space Camp when I was 12. I had to make do reading and re-reading the Time Life book series on the various planets.
It brought me right back to those days longing to be in a spacesuit as I read the tripped [...]
- The NYC hamster wheel vs. the hamster wheel of the Valley
Reading about the endless hamster wheel of Silicon Valley made me reflect on this effect in NYC.
New York has the same effect espoused in this article- to endlessly drive you to ever higher echelons of wealth. But the effect is less-pronounced due to other factors, at least from my experience.
While the very wealthy are always [...]
- Time tweaks
New York is a city of multi-taskers. Most of my peers in the tech industry (media, publishing, advertising..) all have a variety of jobs, gigs, tasks, etc. My friend Nichelle was quoted in the Times in an article about being able to juggle several varying kinds of different work at once. She manages to handle [...]
- Persistence
When I was young I had the good fortune to travel on one nice trip per year. It wasn’t because my family had the money to- we were just scraping by- it was because my mom had the “luck” to win supermarket and manufacturer contests for free trips.
Now in reality it wasn’t luck at all- [...]
- Summer in the city
Well the summer may be a third over- but the definitive guide to summer in the city just came out. New York Mag still does the best job of regional editorial on the web- and their annual summer guide is a great compendium of fun things to do..
http://nymag.com/guides/summer/
Now I just have resist the siren song [...]
- A few pics from NextNY Rooftop 2.0 Happy Hour last night
The NextNY crew got together to give a bon voyage to Charlie O’Donnell who is heading out on a cross country adventure while he reflects on where his life will take him next.
With the Empire State building looking down upon us we talked tech, NYC & of course, tomorrow’s release of the iPhone.It was a [...]
- Barry Diller interview on 20/20
I watched the Barry Diller interview on 20/20 last night. I often get a kick out of the mainstream press covering the latest fad of tech- but this was a good interview, and I actually enjoyed all of the backstory about Barry’s lifelong romance with Diane Von Furstenberg. Barry talked a fair amount about building [...]
- Great NYC Quote
This is a great NYC quote from the excellent NYMag Profit Calculator Article..
“Like all older, colder cities, New York City suffered greatly in the seventies when declining transport costs made it possible for manufacturing to relocate to cheaper places. New York’s resurgence since then has been based on innovations in financial service…The flow of innovations [...]
- DFJ Gotham East Coast Venture Competition
So I attended the DFJ Gotham East Coast Venture Competition today. Unfortunately Penn’s two teams got knocked out in the first round this morning, so I didn’t get to see them.
The highlight was of course the end of the day, when not only did they hand out two prize checks, but Time Draper, of Draper [...]
