My wife Nancy and I have been discussing and debating Facebook’s proposed acquisition of What’sApp. Facebook has agreed to acquire What’sApp, an instant messaging service for $16 billion of mostly stock. Facebook and What’sApp remind me of the wildly popular…
While trying to crystallize a fall newsletter topic, one of my friends Julian Lum suggested that I write about education. I don’t know a whole lot about primary education, other than there are good schools and good teachers as well…
In November, Nancy and I took a “bucket list” trip. Nancy wanted to visit Vietnam. I wasn’t crazy about the idea, but I was curious as to what had changed since I was a teenager and 500,000 US soldiers served…
