"Oh god, today is the day."

I said to myself first thing when I woke up.

I had been dreading this day, while simultaneously craving it like a kid craves Christmas.

"Please, let this work out, let my words roll correctly, let them understand, help me through this." I prayed...

I was overwhelmed by unbridled passion, movement, energy, and emotion from the moment I stepped foot off of the plane in NYC.

I had never experienced anything quite like it.

People moving, things happening, laughs being had, shouting people, honking cars, running to catch a ferry, walking at running pace...

Every person should fight for what they believe in. Some are forced to, some are called to, and some do it because it is inherently the right thing to do.

Aaron Swartz is a hero. Aaron changed the course of information freedom. Had SOPA passed, we would be living in...

Otherwise I won't grow.

I thrive on negative feedback.

Sugar-coating never helped anyone, it only prolonged the inevitable.

The only road to change is through the trenches of truth  --  objective, hard-to-handle truth.

I was blessed that both of my parents were incredibly empathetic, they made me stay humble, and...

Creativity can be routinized.

If you don't believe that, see the coffee-induced brainstorming process Jony Ive, Steve Jobs and the Apple design team have used over the past 20 years; giving birth to the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad.

An Italian designer on Jony Ive's...

Oh, really?

You got married and had three kids? Nice.

You got rich and bought a car worth more than my parent's house? Sweet.

You hiked Everest and basically became a super hero? Righteous.

I was invited to my class reunion last week via Facebook group and within five seconds...

At 13,000 feet the door opened.

Wind rushed the cabin, green lights lit up -- it was time to go.

First went the long-haired, ear-pierced wild man, lunging out of the plane like a giddy dog going for a run. The second was the man in black, a fully slick-suited...