About four and half years ago I came to work at Twitter. I already knew a few of the founding team, and had grown to love the service through launching and running @google for a couple of years. I love the immediacy of the platform, and how its constraints fuel…

Recently I was lucky to be invited to TEDxSanQuentin, one of those “independently organized” gatherings done in the TED talks style, and under the aegis of the high-end conference. I jumped at the chance. San Quentin looms large in the public imagination, especially in the Bay Area, being an really…

December invariably invites a look back over the closing year, and that can quickly lead to assessing one’s life to date. I’m as susceptible as anyone to this progression, and always conclude that I’m so grateful for where I am and all I have. Naturally, charities count on many of…

or, how I spent my summer vacation. — Photo: Drake Goodman CC “To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.” — Simon Callow Growing up, I wouldn’t have pegged myself as a theatre lover. I’ve always leaned towards non-fiction and documentary…

He would be astonished by my world — My dad died 40 years ago. He was such a creature of his time and place that I like to imagine him returning, a centenarian-plus, and me catching him up on all that’s happened since he left. (If I’m to be strictly chronological about it, I’d start with Nixon’s resignation…