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On Prince Waleed and Twitter

There’s been quite a bit of buzz over the news today that Saudi Prince Waleed has invested $300m in Twitter. I barely paid attention to the news at first, considering the massive list of companies that the prince’s company, Kingdom Holdings, has invested in (including Amazon, eBay, and PriceLine, among many others, not to mention […]

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Havel on the slow burn of democratic change

“We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality” – Václav Havel Thanks to the faded receipt stuck between its dog-eared pages, I know that I purchased Václav Havel’s The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice on February 17, 1999, my […]

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#Dec15, a day of gratitude

When I lost my dad on November 29, what surprised me the most wasn’t my feelings, but the outpouring of love–emails, phone calls, Facebook and Twitter messages–I received from all over the world.  I tagged the emails “#Dad” and archived them, unable to read them with feelings still raw.  I thanked as many people as […]