To Retain Risk Taking Well Into Adulthood — Adopt A Teenager Mindset

Risk aversion starts setting in after we turn forty and beyond. Conversing over dinner with a fellow board member, Mike, we both surprised each other when we agreed that as we grow older we need to take more risks, and not fewer. When our obligations are over — kids have graduated from college, perhaps when we could start […]

Connecting With OurSelves

Connecting and networking have become buzzwords in business circles.  Business schools aggressively promote them. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are great ways to connect with business associates and friends, but are we spending too much time on connecting with other people and too little connecting with our own inner selves?   Connecting with  ourselves requires introspection. […]

Why Silicon Valley Must Get Engaged In Legislative Process And Vote

Last November’s presidential election results were a wakeup call for Silicon Valley. For the first time we, the Siliconeers, felt disenfranchised and irrelevant even though California is the most populous state, has created most jobs by far, and has primed the pump of innovation over past four decades.  “Others” voted in a president who does […]

How To Accelerate Learning by Deliberate Reading:

Through reading books or reading on the web, we immerse ourselves in another world. We are incredibly fortunate how easily valuable information is available and accessible and most of it for free. Effective reading is best done if we give a little structure to how we read.  As children we are encouraged to read. Today […]