May 2012
8 posts
Health and family are all that really matter. No amount of wealth, power, fame, nothing else trumps the importance of health and family. Focus on these two things above all else.
Congrats to all my friends involved with Facebook. Deep thanks for accelerating the rate of change in our world. This is a historic day for the tech world. Entrepreneurship is a force for good.
In my strategic overview of the landscape ahead I see tremendous and fierce competitive forces for the four giants: Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, Microsoft. I have reached the conclusion that I must treat Facebook-Microsoft as one quasi-company. I call it FBSoft. This is not dissimilar to the US-UK in WWII (yes MS is UK in this example- this analogy does not carry with it moral parallels at...
Success Amnesia...
Practice success and failure amnesia. Forget that you succeeded. Forgive and forget that you failed. Learn from both and move on fast. Failure can be a patient teacher- it’s often a learnable event. Success can lead to signal and pattern blindness. The greatest achievers I have met are grounded and focused. They practice success amnesia. Achievement is a state of mind. It needs to be practiced,...
April 2012
6 posts
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The Love Principle in Investing →
With Maria Bartiromo I talk about what I call the ‘Love Principle’ in investing (To see the video click on the title above). I want to expand on what I said. I’ve learned to invest only in the companies where I completely fall in love with the team, product, execution and vision. Life is short so one should want to invest your time, energy and resources into something that you can be tireless...
March 2012
1 post
Peering Around Corners
Pondering ambition and motivation. I had a conversation with someone that made me realize the importance of allowing young people to taste what life can be like if one works hard. A diversity of experiences at a young age can transform a young mind to expand the horizons what they imagined was possible for them.
At every juncture I was blessed to peer around the corners of life and see there are...
February 2012
1 post
What it means to me to be an American.
I was recently informed that the US Government had chosen me as an Outstanding American by Choice. This recognition was established by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2006 to recognize the significant contributions and achievements of naturalized U.S. Citizens. I didn’t know what to think and then it got real when Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Alejandro...
January 2012
1 post
We might see the first trillion dollar company by... →
December 2011
1 post
The Ride of A Lifetime.
“We ain’t even spose to be here…If you escaped what I escaped, you’d be in Paris getting f’d up too…That s**t cray.” - Jay-Z
“It’s not, like, ‘We’re here! We’re balling harder than everybody.’ “It’s like, ‘I’m shocked that we’re here.’ Still being amazed, still not being jaded. Having...
November 2011
2 posts
Thanks and Giving with Tahrir on my Mind
I was in Tahrir Square in this October and participated in the protest against the SCAF or the Military Council. I met with some of the bravest youth leaders in my time there. It was clear that Egypt was like 2 nations: a nation of the youth who fought for their freedom and made history and the “nation” of the old who were trying to steal the revolution that the youth spilled their blood for. In...
October 2011
5 posts
It's Finally Time to Convene a Constitutional...
“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.” ~Woodrow Wilson
“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” ~Elmer Davis
In American history, no Article V convention has ever been convened. There have been over 700 applications to convene a Constitutional Convention and none have succeeded. In this age of Facebook, Twitter and...
Revolution 2.0
Government in its current form has become obsolete and irrelevant. Youth around the world have risen. Armed with mobile and social networking technologies they can organize protests unlike anything the world has seen; faster and at a scale.
Peaceful protests are preferred. Peaceful protests when confronted with violence will only scale faster. In some cases peace met with assymetrical...
New America Declaration
This post from July 2010 might be relevant now.
“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.” ~Woodrow Wilson
New America Declaration
Shervin Pishevar
July 4th, 2010
We believe that the founding fathers formed a firmament that divided the world between light and darkness. The Free were promised in prepetuity unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit...
August 2011
3 posts
February 2011
1 post
