We produced enough of the original editions that we can sell back-issues. If we sold out the first TRSF, and there were still strong demand, I’d consider printing some more copies.

No, Stallman says that having the video run continuously is problematical because of privacy concerns.

I'll listen to it, trigedge!

Ah! That's a great question. I think the most difficult thing to learn as a manager is how simultaneously lead an organization and invite, value, and listen to input. The trick, as I've grown to understand it, is setting goals, values, and budgets, within which the entire organization works. You can think of this as…

See my reply to CambridgeWoman below.

Android is outselling iOS, already.

Wittgenstein didn't deny that incredibly painful — horrible - things happen. As you say, he died of cancer. But his last words were, "Tell them I've had a wonderful life." I think his point is that the essential "me" is independent of fate and circumstance, and cannot be hurt by tyrants, or sickness, or even death…

My best advice is: you can't really expect to "keep track" of all your tasks/goals/notes. This is the essential wisdom of GTD, and why it's such a powerful tool. All you can do is completely capture everything, and then process it. That's because everything you capture will be processed differently, depending on what…

This is something of a joke, of course. Although I do really enjoy both Television and the Velvets. Also, late-middle period David Bowie. But I also listen to a lot of Bach and Mozart.

Yes, writing it in the notebook is essentially a mere reminder to take an action. But once you've captured the idea you need to ask yourself a series of questions. What have you captured? Is the thing actionable? (If not, trash it, or file it for reference.) Can you do it immediately, in less than two minutes? (If so,…

That was the plan of Susan Hockfield, the last president of MIT. She saw all the startups and biotech companies beginning to cluster around the Institute, but she noticed there was really nowhere to live and work. She worked with the MIT investment company, and the City of Cambridge, to build a new, more modern city…

Yes! I take notes during every meeting, and then process them at the end of the day through the methods described in GTD. At the end of the week, on Sunday evenings, I work through everything that happened during the week making sure I've captured and assigned everything that was important. I fear that my staff dreads…

Hi, CambridgeWoman. Amongst magazines, I read The New York Review of Books, The Economist, The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, TLS, Nature, Science, the New Scientist (and a long list of peer-review journals, too obscure to list), Granta, N+1, The Paris Review, The Atlantic. For newspapers... I suppose I…

I don't have the problem of losing motivation. There are two parts to my job, and both are absorbing. As an editor and writer, there are always new technology stories to tell: technology is the most important driver of global change in our lifetime. And as the publisher, how one navigates a deeply disrupted industry…

Hah! Well, I laugh, because our IT manager is disinclined to upgrade me because I keep on dropping and losing my iPhone. I imagine I'll upgrade to the next iPhone. As for Android.. Well, at TED a couple of years ago, Goog gave us all a Nexus. I used it for about a month. I was really impressed with a lot of the…

I often writer my longer pieces from home, if only because there are inevitably less distractions. But I rather think it only works if you're a disciplined soul. But, to be honest, my brain is my office: I am a moveable feast. I can work anywhere.

Oh, I'm not sure it's possible, dws1052. My work and my life tend to merge into each other. There's never a moment when I'm not working, insofar as I am always thinking, reading, writing, and wondering about how to solve problems here at MIT TR.

I was the editor of Red Herring magazine, which the WSJ called "the bible of the boom", from 1996 to 2002. It went belly up after we burnt through $50 million in venture funding. Then, I was the cofounder of a biotech publication called "The Acumen Journal of Life Sciences" That failed, too. I was determined never to…

You're very kind! We have editions in China, India, German, Italy, throughout the Spanish-speaking world. They suggest ideas and people to us. Also, our annual lists of disruptive ideas, people, and companies expose us to thought-leaders.