In case you are interested, I wrote a guest blog post over at Slice of MIT on the Masdar Institute as a follow-up to my post on the Masdar Initiative taking place in Abu Dhabi. The Masdar Institute is going to serve as the epicenter of learning, innovation and venture creation on green concepts, processes [...]
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Dr. Seuss’ Age Old Wisdom
There is no doubt we are in a tough time economically. And in our world of technology, start-ups, entrepreneurship and innovation, we are feeling the pressure more each day. Today Google announced that they will have layoffs of 200 employees, no different than the layoff news that has come from other companies like Microsoft and [...]
Been a while…
It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been doing some traveling (both business and pleasure) and its kept me from posting as much as I would like. More importantly, at times I lacked total connectivity which I was beginning to think wasn’t possible and it stopped me from reading as much too. These [...]
Do Animals Strike a Greater Chord? Why?
I am reading Bill Gates’ 2009 Annual Letter from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Only a few pages into it, where Bill is discussing agriculture and negative impacts climate change can have on progress in that arena. He makes a brief comment about animals: It is interesting how often the impact of climate change [...]
Certainty Alludes Us
I am currently reading a book entitled The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb or NNT as he calls himself throughout. It is a very thought-provoking read and gets you thinking quite critically with regard to how you assess the probabilities of a given set of circumstances, how sound (or un-sound) are predictive models and [...]
