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Basic functionality, like calling people, email, and certainly document editing still feel inelegant and clunky due to the onscreen keyboard, and the lack of multitasking makes moving around through those typically important tasks difficult to say the least. At the end of the day, it's nice to stick the "we love business users" line into your PR, but it's quite another thing to make it real.

While providing a huge market for Europe's goods, we've also substantially relieved the European powers of the burden of defending themselves. By assuming Europe's defense the U.S. has, in effect, allowed it the luxury of extremely expensive and ultimately unsustainable social-welfarism. If the U.S. economy weakens because of increased regulation, heavy-handed unionization, and higher taxes and debt to support an expensive social agenda, it will hurt Europe.

Getting our heads around information abundance will mean becoming more discerning about what information is worth our time and what kinds of tasks require real focus.

And so the Republican Party should get serious, as serious as the age, because that is what a grown-up, responsible party—a party that deserves to lead—would do. We are going to need the best.

Since Bernie Madoff has put Ponzi schemes back onto the front pages, it's worth considering whether we are all complicit in the biggest Ponzi scheme of them all, the idea that the global economy can grow indefinitely. One hopeful view is that we will reach a steady state economy, which remains approximately the same size in terms of aggregate quantity, but enjoys a qualitative dynamism within the constraints of that size.

Work on something that matters to you more than money. Create more value than you capture. Take the long view.

Pity the culture snob, as Kindles, iPods, and flash drives swallow up the visible markers of superior taste and intelligence. With the digitization of books, music, and movies, how will the highbrow distinguish him- or herself from the masses?

You can build a great startup in any of the dozen to two dozen startup hotbeds around the world. Pick a place you want to live and work and possibly raise a family. And then get busy.

A horror story about one company's ordeals with the city of Los Angeles. LA classified them in a lower tax bracket in 1994 and then arbitrarily bumped them up in 2007, ignoring its own ruling. Explains why business is fleeing LA and why one would think twice about establishing a business in Los Angeles.

Most software developers if given the choice of maintaining their own code or someone else's code, will choose their own. That's unfortunate. Editing other people's code is one of the best things that can happen to a developer. It's a great way to see what works and what doesn't.