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You’ve probably seen them on Facebook, X, BlueSky, or your favorite social network. The posts usually start with something like this: I will never read a book where the author used AI in any form or fashion!!! I don’t often wade into these debates, but if I did, I’d point out that many—perhaps most—authors already […]
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After years and years of taking cruises in the Caribbean, Europe, even the South Pacific, last month I finally took my first cruise to Alaska, aboard Holland America’s Oosterdam. July
When Holland America Line president Orlando Ashford announced the cruise line’s partnershp with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts back in March 2015 at Seatrade, I was among those in
Title: “Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000″ Author: Jason Calacanis My rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Release date: July 18, 2017 on
Outtakes from the VR Tuesday meetup in San Francisco OK, you’ve heard about this virtual reality thing and know something big is coming down the road, but what is it,
Here are some of my favorite photos of my cruise with Janet aboard Wind Surf to St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, St. Barts, St. Maarten and St. Lucia in March 2017 and
Alt-rocker headlines ‘floating nerd convention’ on Holland America ship Earlier this month I spent a week on JoCo Cruise, the annual gathering of superfans of indie musician/singer/songwriter Jonathan Coulton, along
A clear-eyed look at the mind-blowing changes in spatial computing dead ahead Title: “The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence Change Everything” Authors: Robert Scoble & Shel Israel
Solid advice for startup founders, from startup founders I’ve been lucky in that I’ve attended every Launch conference and every TechCrunch Disrupt conference since the very first one back in
Bringing together angels & 4 startups trying to revolutionize next-generation travel We didn’t know quite what to expect when we came up with the idea, two months ago, to hold
Here’s a photo gallery of my trip to Kotor, Montenegro, aboard Viking Star in November 2015. The history and look of the place was absolutely mesmerizing! Loved the medieval Old
Here are some of my photos of the exquisite medieval-era city of Old Dubrovnik taken during a voyage on Viking Star in November 2015. You might recognize some of these
Here’s a photo gallery of my recent trip to Greece aboard Viking Star. We spent a full day in Athens — a 20-minute taxi ride from the port of Piraeus
If you can possibly get to Istanbul, go! While many of the locals we met on our Viking cruise in November 2015 had the hard gruffness that characterizes many Middle
I‘m not about to turn this into a food blog, but I came across one of the best new recipes of the past year recently, tweaked it a bit to
I‘m just back from one of the best inaugural tech events on the West Coast: the two-day Traction conference, which drew some 800 entrepreneurs, startup team members, marketers and angels
There were lots of remarkable moments at the eighth Launch Festival, which ended a three-day run Wednesday at Fort Mason in San Francisco: Investor legend Peter Thiel exhorting entrepreneurs to
I’m in the middle of launching my own startup, so when I’m not heads down working 80-100 hours a week on that I’m rubbing shoulders with other startup founders and
Here are some of my favorite Photos from my October 2014 trip to Machu Picchu and Cusco, Peru, in November 2014. I was flown in to speak to a conference
Today is the kickoff of the 20th annual South by Southwest Interactive, the seminal glimpse-of-the-future gathering held each March in Austin. I’ve attended four times, spoken there three times, was
Here are some of the photos I shot this week at Startup Grind, the startup conference that drew 1,000 attendees and speakers — including tech investor MC Hammer, above —
More companies are hiring scribes to ramp up ‘content plays’ From left, Michael Copeland, Ben Worthen, Dan Lyons, Harrison Weber & Brian Caulfield Afunny thing is happening to a lot
A portable charger for your digital lifestyle Over the years, I’ve done product reviews for companies like Nokia, small camcorder companies and gadget startups in my role as a columnist
Randi Zuckerberg’s new book offers wise advice on how to balance our personal & professional lives online Target audience: Small and mid-size businesses, entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, social media managers, college
New book, out today, identifies ‘five forces’ animating modern culture Title: “The Age of Context” Pages: 248 Publisher: CreateSpace Release date: Sept. 25, 2013 Every few years someone comes along
