Month: October 2013

  • Are We Becoming Nature’s Very Own Cyborgs?

    Yeah, your your mom and dad deserve some credit for how much information your brain can jam in, retain and recall — and how fast.  The foundation of our ability to process information is indeed genetic. Thankfully for our children, though, despite what they’ve inherited from us, they can do a great deal to build more capacity and brain speed for themselves. Eat…

  • Smile: Jimmy Fallon & The Roots Make Us Like Miley Cyrus

    Yet again, Jimmy Fallon finds a way to make us smile.  And yet again, The Roots do too.  But come on, making me like Miley Cyrus again?  How’d they do that?  This version premiered this morning and is about to spread faster than  Miley herself on the internets.

  • Yahoo! News Presents: How Millennials Will Change the Workforce

    Yahoo! News recently invited me to appear on its live special exploring the future of the U.S workforce.  See below for my comments on “sidepreneurs,” the value of a college degree, and the impact of the Millennial generation on life at the office… From Yahoo! News’ intro: By 2020, nearly 50% of the U.S. workforce…

  • From My New Interview On The Viacom Blog

    I was recently interviewed by the Viacom Blog.  There I talk about the power of Viacom innovation, the origin of Scratch, and my gratitude to the friends and colleagues who’ve worked so hard and so brilliantly, side by side with me for the last ten years.  We’re a team.  Fortune Magazine noticed, and it highlights…