One of the most frequent questions I get from journalists during interviews is “how do you have time to do everything you do? You run Fon, you are an active angel investor in so many companies, you teach at IE, speak at conferences, run your foundation, and on top of that you have a wife, [...]

Flipboard makes social media look better, more visual, perfect for the iPad.  Now there are two things that I would like to see in Flipboard.  One is a blended Flipboard, a Flipboard that shows you the best from all your social media.  In my Flipboard I have Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr.  I would like [...]

When Spanair flight 5022 had its fatal accident in which most passengers died I said in my blog that most likely the accident was caused by  the pilots who made the tragic error of forgetting to take off with flaps.  I mentioned that I was a pilot myself and could see how the pilots paid [...]

We used to come to Uruguay to get away from everybody we knew. Now everybody we know comes to Uruguay, and I don’t just mean everyone we know from Argentina, that was always the case. I mean a lot of people we know from Europe and USA as well. And they keep coming in growing [...]

Little kids want to believe. Teenagers don’t want to believe. We are Jewish but we are not religious. I am glad we aren’t, especially for the upbringing of my 5 children. If we had been religious Jews I could not have dressed as Santa and brought gifts to my kids at a young age. I [...]

This afternoon I was trying different file formats with different ebook readers. This is what I conclude and please help me if I am wrong. For Kindle you need to get book files in .mobi format, for iPad and Kobo in .epub In iPad: first download books in .epub format then import them to the [...]

In October 2007 I had a 90 minutes meeting with Steve Jobs. It was a very special moment in my career. At Fon we were already partners with Google and I had met most of the key actors in the technology world by then but not Steve Jobs. The meeting was not a success. Steve [...]

What each Southern European country needs now is not to spend less. Spending less alone will only exacerbate the recessions and make the countries insolvent, default and leave the euro. This is true even if the cuts in spending are made in areas in which today there is corruption and waste: less spending leads to [...]

Here’s Evo Morales taxing all of his citizens and then using their money to give out laptops to teachers for free with his image. Picture via  huffingtonpost.com

Nationalism and religion have a lot in common. Yet nationalists and religious people will quickly deny this. But both nationalism and religion are about tribal rituals, members and not members, ours vs theirs, inclusion vs exclusion. A gene pool vs a non gene pool. I know this. I am Jewish but I am not religious, [...]