reinventnow

Paul Graham succinctly describes what I’ve thought all along… it doesn’t matter where you go to college:
Practically everyone thinks that someone who went to MIT or Harvard or Stanford must be smart. Even people who hate you for it believe it.
But when you think about what it means to have gone to an elite college, […]

In addition to making the yellow cab brigade entirely green within five years, the city will require all new vehicles entering the fleet after October 2008 to achieve a minimum of 25 miles per gallon. A year later, all new vehicles must get 30 miles per gallon and be hybrid. Bloomberg made the announcement on […]

On Saturday morning, I attended a world café gathering in Berkeley. I hadn’t been in such a large group of passionate, intelligent and warm people in a long time. They were incredibly welcoming of me even though I was a “newbie” to the whole process.
I had never been part of a world cafe […]

From “engineer” and “artist” with an emphasis on the french sensibilities of being-in-development-as-artist… engiartiste. Are you one?
“Renaissance man” is way too 20th century. And *way* too old world patriarchy.

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He’s back in the news again.  Recently, he reappeared after having disappeared for a long time and now he wants to be buried alive:
KATHMANDU: Ram Bahadur Bomjan — Nepal’s “Buddha Boy”, whose followers claim he has meditated without food or water — is back in the news with media reports suggesting that he plans to […]