The first: If you've ever
liked tactical ops and over analyzing military stuff, especially with
Osama Bin Laden, this is for you.
It's an NPR interview with Peter Bergen about the Seal raid that took
out Osama in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Such a good way to spend a half
hour.
The second piece I want to share is an article written by Yuri Vanetik, someone I met at a Gen Next
event in LA a number of months ago. I couldn't agree more with his
argument: the lifeblood of American tech entrepreneurialism is in
foreigners, and that the US should be extending more visas--if not
citizenship--to these people who represent the American Dream in its
best shade. From the article:
No talent channel is more bogged down with needless and costly rules than the visa system for highly skilled immigrants.
Every year, thousands of foreign citizens with advanced degrees in
science and engineering apply to become permanent residents in the United States. They want to work and contribute. They also have valuable ideas for new businesses.
Oh, and in other news, I just got my proofs from the printer. My book is coming out in 18 days!
Note: Please have this YouTube video playing for music while you read this piece:
So I've officially sent my book--Surfing the Middle East--to the printer and decided to ride up to San Francisco for a meeting.
Along the way I took many cool roads, even finding a rattle snake that
was squished on the road while deviating from the 101 Freeway a bit. When I got to SF the meeting went great, and on my back down the coast I decided to
take California's famous Highway 1 that goes along the coast. One of my
favorite places on that ride is Big Sur. There, a year ago when I more
or less did the same thing for another meeting in San Fran, I found this
great dirt road that takes you way up through the interior of Big Sur. This time I saw deer, an owl, and even a Wild Turkey (not to
mention a bottle of it that I carried in my duffel bag). Like my last time riding through this road, I met this
retired cop who is hired to patrol the road from poachers, dopers,
and mushroom hunters. But I was just there for the ride. And here are
some of the pictures from this little vagabond.
Remember,
travel does not have to be something major like surfing from Israel to
Lebanon; travel can be as simple as hopping on your motorcycle with a
copy of On the Road, and literally going out to explore it.
. . . deviating from the 101 freeway . . .
. . . getting ready to ride while in SF . . .
. . . homelessness in the City . . .
. . . one of the truly great things in this world: baseball . . .
. . . pointing the camera back is what you have to do when you ride alone . . .
. . . that great dirt road through the interior of Big Sur . . .
. . . my little spot in Big Sur I camp . . .
. . . Big Sur sunset from my spot . . .
. . . on the road that leads out of the Big Sur . . .
