Entries by AlanPaul

Rebecca gender gap panel and article

My wife Rebecca Blumenstein moderated a gender gap talk at WSJ CEO  Council in Washington last week. This was a continuation of the women’s leadership conference she organzied and ran last April in Florida and which will be reprised this April. DC Panel members included actress Geena Davis;Debra Lee, chairman and chief executive of Viacom […]

A Giant Loss: RIP Robert “Tractor” Traylor

A Giant Loss: My story looking back at the life of Robert “Tractor” Traylor is out in the current Slam, and is posted at @Slamonline. I present it here as well. RIP Rob. A Giant Loss Robert “Tractor” Traylor’s death last spring left a hole in the hearts of all who knew him. by Alan […]

Self driving cars are for real

I just thought this was very cool. Certainly cooler than Google+. “Thrun and his Google colleagues, including co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are convinced that smarter vehicles could help make transportation safer and more efficient: Cars would drive closer to each other, making better use of the 80 percent to 90 percent of empty […]

A nice video interview about Big In China

Pour yourself a cup of coffee or glass of wine. It’s a half-hour interview, and a pretty good one I think, about Big in China. Filmed at Columbia High School and aired on local cable TV — and I’ve been shocked by how many people around here have seen it. Glad I took it seriously.

Furthur at MSG – 11-10-11

Over the last year as Furthur, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh’s latest venture into the music of the Dead, took form and took off, I was completely encased in my own book world and not really getting out to shows. Friends who care have been raving and it looked and sounded great on Youtube. I […]