I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.
Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.
I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.
We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.
I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.
In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can’t afford to do that.
The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.
The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.
The US constitution’s First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with – more speech and debate, not censorship.
The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.
My whole life has been about connecting things that aren’t connected.
Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.
I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.
Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.
Education is something that other people do to you. Learning is something you do for yourself.
For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.
In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it’s the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.