Clarity of Thought

An unpublished essay from 2007, with some interesting predictions, and optimism, about how change was going to come.

Posted at 12:19 pm on February 15, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Economic crisis, life philosophy | read on

Life and Death at the Brandenburg Gate

I first visited the Brandenburg Gate as a student, just before the Berlin Wall came down. I went with my mother, a first-generation Holocaust survivor; she later died there, exactly there, of natural causes. I revisited the memorial last summer, with my sons and German wife and family. Here’s an essay about reunification, reconciliation, and forgiveness.

Posted at 9:35 am on February 15, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: cybersecurity, german-jewish reconciliation, life philosophy | read on

About

I am the co-founder and former CEO of DAFCA, Inc, an electronic design automation (EDA) software tools company. I am also a board director of the successful open source network security company Astaro AG, a venture partner at Ventizz Capital Partners, a consulting professor at Stanford University, and a computer science advisory board member at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Last but not least, I’m helping launch a new company, Zanio, which will focus on location-based authentication.


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