It is a very nice feeling, yet strange. It is very refreshing to get perspectives on things. A lot has happened, and still happens. It is like being is this tumbling roller-coaster where you never know if it is gonna be a valley or hill, a twist or turn, or if the roller-coaster is upside-down [...]
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Life is a funny thing. You never know where it will take you. I realized something. I am over something. Something I thought it would take me a long time to come over and it did…
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Right now I am sitting and enjoying an afternoon coffee listening to Annie Lennox – “Into the West”, the end song of the third and last part of Lord of the Rings. I cannot help thinking back on a year that has changed my life tremendously. A friend asked me how my year has been [...]
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I woke up this morning with around 10 missed calls, 15 SMSs and a truck load of emails about the tragic death and assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan earlier today Pacific Time. I cannot say I know so much about Pakistani politics, but I do believe that violence is not the right way to [...]
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Lately I have been thinking of what forms the personality of a person. I daily meet people and I am constantly amazed by the diversity of peoples minds and their characteristics. I am also amazed how many people I meet who are totally unaware of their personality and how much it influences their behavior in [...]
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A good friend gave me a book with a collection of chronicles of Hans Bergstrom, the former editor-in-chief at Dagens Nyheter – one of the biggest daily morning news papers in Sweden. I read several of the chronicles and one struck me as very on point about where the web, media and the world is [...]
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It has been almost two months since I blogged here. It has been an intense period and the last month and a half has felt like a lifetime. Anyhow, everything is great here and the weather is great for rollerblading. Yesterday after a smashing win over Johan in tennis (yet with a healing injury in [...]
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… the tough get going. It seems as if that is the mantra of the day or more of the year. It is rolling up your sleeves time. It is crunch time. Pick your favorite line. Things are moving. Things are moving fast now. Things are moving somewhere. Let us see where they are moving…
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I wrote a piece describing the Silicon Valley and the secret behind its success recently. I have appended the text below. You are right now in the heart of an area, once called “The Valley of Heart’s Delightâ€, today better known as the Silicon Valley. Few locations have this veil of mystery. What is the [...]
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I read this at Roughtype. I get scared. This is not at all where I do believe we should go. I remember a Donald Duck cartoon on the same subject. Conclusion there is that it makes us dumb and even though it sounds pretty stupid I agree with that conclusion. It is stupid. I prefer [...]
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Some good reading