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• San Francisco: Ground Zero for Reinvention

  I’d been meaning to write this blog post after the San Francisco 49ers won the Superbowl, just a few months after the San Francisco Giants won the World Series. But then the last few minutes of play in that Superbowl undercut the thrust of my lead – though just barely. No matter how you frame it, San Francisco, and I Read more →

• Obama’s Second Inaugural: Our Moment for “Reinvention”

  “America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it so long as we seize it together.” - Barack Obama, Second Inaugural Address I Read more →

• The New Political Label: “Peer Progressive”

  I’ve been involved in Silicon Valley for almost 20 years now, and I’ve been interested and involved in politics for even longer, and through it all I’ve struggled to understand and categorize the political thinking of people in the tech world. Many of them are not really left or right but something different and undefined. Undefined, until now. Steven Johnson’s Read more →