Private Opinion

The Middle East is defined by uncertainty.

The recent war with Iran, and the Memorandum of Understanding that followed it, has left people dissatisfied across the political spectrum.

About 12 years of life expectancy difference. 30 times difference in income. 8 times infant mortality.

I was wrong.

The Islamic Regime has always been a belligerent and unreformable system.

Rule of Law Within, Power Without Enforcement, Power, and the Myth of the Rules-Based Order When people speak about the “rules-based international order,” they often invoke the phrase as if it described something comparable to the rule of law within a sta…

As I read the news about the ongoing war, I find myself struck less by what I see than by what I don’t.

The images coming out of Iran are unbearable.

There is courage inside Iran.

“Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.”

This essay treats the Islamic regime in Iran not as an aberration to be morally condemned or reformed away, but as an ideological dictatorship reaching the end of its natural political life cycle.

The war between Israel and Iran didn’t begin in June 2025, but in August 2002 when the world found out about the clandestine nuclear facilities in Araak and Natanz.

If you have ever had your wisdom tooth taken out, you know how tempting it is to poke the crater left behind with your tongue.

Imagine 100 people in a stadium.

“We’ve built a 70,000-node Mesos cluster for our developers, but they won’t use it.

The killer feature of any SaaS business is the massive reduction of operational cost and complexity including setup, configuration, ongoing maintenance and upgrades.

*Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

I own a Smart car.

Getting old doesn’t have many upsides.

If you've been part of any startup accelerator or have talked to a "startup mentor" you know how obsessed most of them can be with the elevator pitch i.e. the ability to explain your idea or business during a short elevator ride.

Our office in San Francisco has communal bathroom facilities, which like other communal areas, gets thoroughly cleaned every morning.

Coming out of a London Underground station these days means getting bombarded with a deluge of freebies ranging from drink samples to a couple of months of free gym memberships.

On last count, Jeremy Clarkson, the infamous creator and presenter of "Top Gear," the world's most famous car show owned a Ford GT, a Mercedes SL55 AMG, a Ferrari F355, a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, a Jaguar XJR, a Volvo XC90 SUV, a Toyota Land Cruiser S…

If you are starting a “startup” you have seen many startup groupies.

Don’t read the TechCrunch.