”A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” – Steve Jobs explaining why Apple doesn’t depend upon focus groups No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all [...]
Ten years after the World Trade Center Twin Towers collapsed, American citizens are getting ready to pay tribute to the lives that were lost and to the fire fighters, police officers, and soldiers who ran into the blazing flames on September 11, 2001. With social media being leveraged as a primary source of communication and [...]
Last week, I had the pleasure of interviewing X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis, who is hard at work empowering some of the greatest minds to solve the world’s biggest challenges. The X PRIZE Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring innovation in education, energy, life sciences and exploration. Its mission is to foster great ideas [...]
The glitterati and digerati of Los Angeles came out to represent at Hollywood’s intimate and chic nightclub The Sayers Club Wednesday night for the launch of the sleek new 4G LG Revolution phone. Two days leading up to the party at LA’s newest hidden treasure, eight lucky social media VIPs (myself included) got to experiment [...]
Last month, I joined a team of space engineering students from the University of Michigan in an hour and a half-long flight aboard the famous Weightless Wonderaircraft to document the group’s participation in NASA’s Reduced Gravity Flight Education Program in Houston, Texas. Flying at 30,000 feet in a state of simulated weightlessness is an outer-worldly [...]
When I was in grade school I had dreams of becoming an astronaut. Not unlike my additional aspirations of one day becoming a cowgirl, an Olympic runner, and a race horse jockey, my visions of flying as a weightless warrior in a land far far away were pushed aside when I discovered I couldn’t escape [...]
There is a saying about three different magnificent cities I have lived in twice. “If you are smart, you move to San Francisco. If you are ambitious, you move to LA. If you are smart and ambitious, you move to New York.” My time in New York was a good nine lives ago, but my adventures in [...]
