The girls in the family and I took Walter and ten of his classmates to the Rangers game as his 10th birthday party.  No greater test of parental love has every been devised than stopping 10 soda-fueled boys from inflicting permanent inner ear damage...

The theme for this year’s edition of the World Economic Forum in Davos was “Rethink, Redesign and Rebuild.”   While the actual rebuilding must await the delegates return to their home countries and the transition from talk to action, nonetheless...

Now that Congress is well on its way to passing healthcare (or more accurately, health insurance) reform, it is time for me to return to the topic of financial regulation.  My worry is that with the current predilection of our legislators for policy...

I write on the long way home from a trip that started in Tokyo and ended less than two weeks later in Dubai.  During these 12 days, I visited customers, partners, government officials and staff in Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Hyderabad,...

This week I did something very unusual for a life-long Mets fan: I cheered the Yankees to their record 27th World Series triumph.  I have friends, not even Mets fans, who complain that the Yankees don’t deserve our respect because they simply...

This is a post about curved spacetime.  Don’t worry I am not going to attempt an amateur explanation of our four-dimensional universe courtesy of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.  Instead, this is a story of how the current generation...

Why did early broadcast television often show images of announcers standing in a radio studio speaking into microphones?  Why did early adopters of cell phones sometimes stand in old phone booths to make calls from the street?  And why did the...

I shall turn 50 tomorrow which does not worry me at all.  Not having set goals financial or personal that needed to be achieved by a date certain, I am free to pursue my open-ended objectives: a happy marriage, kids who seek success for their own...

I like to play and to watch tennis.  Roger Federer has been and remains my tennis hero because of his outstanding record of achievement on the court and because of the classy way in which he wins – he is the most complete and the most elegant player...

When my friends at BusinessWeek asked me to contribute an article to an issue they were planning on the role of optimism in business, I was happy to oblige for two reasons.   First, I believed that I had an important case to make...

It's a while since I've written a serious piece in this blog about business or technology strategy, so I thought I would make amends below.  After this dry piece, the few remaining readers of this blog will probably wish that I go back to soccer...

Every year our family spends 10 days or so at our lake house in Finland.  This is not a random choice as my beautiful wife Maarit was born and grew up in this watery land of thousands of lakes.  (She also reads this blog from time to time,...

My son Walter’s spring soccer season ended today – under the rain.  It’s as if we never left London.  Now I understand how prescient these kids were to name themselves the “Aqua Dominators” at the beginning of their blue-shirted season. The...

I recently participated in a series of video interviews with an innovative online service called big think www.bigthink.com. The site describes itself as "a global forum connecting people and ideas."  In a wide-ranging interview, I discussed my...

A couple of weeks ago some old friends and I headed out to the Meadowlands Izod Center to hear The Dead.  Not exactly The Grateful Dead of old, as Jerry Garcia can never be replaced, but a reformed and worthy sequel.  Rather than seek some pale...

So in Part One I explained why I began to blog and said why I continue to do so was a story for another day.  Fortunately, a bunch of you took the pregnant hint and requested Part Two of the story.  For a change I will lay out the answer...

I often get asked why I decided to write a blog. The answer unfortunately is not that I felt I had anything so important to say that I needed to share it with my 10,000 closest friends. Rather, the reasons were quite selfish - I wanted to learn. I...

I spoke recently at an interesting monthly gathering of smart, switched-on tech and media leaders in Brooklyn organized by the very talented Sam Lessin – also known among friends of his accomplished father Bob, as “Lessin 2.0.”  The salon is called...

Having just watched the tender movie, Marley and Me, about the irrepressible blond Labrador, I realized that our dog Luna is the only one of our “children” who has not figured prominently in this blog.  Luna does not get taken to the museum or on...

Some of the readers of this blog have requested that I discuss the current financial crisis and resulting recession.  As I shy away from subjects too close to the business of Thomson Reuters, in part to avoid 20 pages of risk factors in each post,...

With Bernie Madoff locked-up in the Manhattan Correctional Center, better known to New Yorkers as ‘the Tombs”  (a fitting place for him to enter prison life, never to return),  I thought I would share one of the odder thoughts (or mental hyperlinks)...

Following our recent Night at the Museum (see separate blog entry below) and thanks to a bad flu in the family, Mariana and I found ourselves on a long holiday ski weekend that turned into another father-daughter outing. Clearly part of Mariana’s pleasure...

A couple of weeks ago my daughter Mariana and I spent a night at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.  Just as in the eponymous movie, we slept (actually not much) surrounded by dinosaurs, stuffed grizzly bears and Teddy Roosevelt....

In his now famous 1989 essay, The End of History, Francis Fukuyama argued that the spread of  Western liberal democracy represented an end of history in the Hegelian sense that the progression of history towards an ultimate goal had, in fact, been...

But journalism is alive and well.    Lionel Barber of the FT masterfully moderated the 2009 installment in the long-running Davos debate on the health of the media, entitled "Fragility in the Fourth Estate."  Joining me on the panel were...