Why Staying Underground for a Week Helps Us

I spent the Chinese new year holidays underground. It was a Buddhist retreat, but instead of staying high up on a mountain or out there on a beach, we spent nearly a whole week inside a facility.What do we do in a retreat? It's not like we collectively sit in the...

Incident, Mistake, and Wrong

What do we say when we have to admit that our actions/attitudes didn't work as we expected? Our response, in preferred order, is usually as follows. Something bad happened. We made a mistake. We were wrong. …While the other side prefers them in the opposite...

What can we do for Japan?

Instead of the usual Thursday blog update, this week I would like to share some information regarding the tragedy that hit my home country. My family, my friends are all safe but that doesn't make the three incidents—earthquake, tsunami, nuclear power plant...

TechCrunch Bought by AOL – So What’s the Negative Factor?

(Note: This is old news.) A while ago TechCrunch sold itself to AOL. TechCrunch did it to outsource promotion and technical support. Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder: The truth is I was tired. But I wasn’t tired of writing, or speaking at events. I was tired...