Brainstorm 2004

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Blogging Brainstorm 2004

Blogging Brainstorm 2004 07/15/2004 12:18 PM

Davi d Kirkpatrick, the man behind Brainstorm said I could blog this event. Rockin'! I'll post some of the notes from my wiki over here too.

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Brainstorm 2004 - Eisner liked
Fahrenheit 9/11

Brainstorm 2004 - Eisner liked
Fahrenheit 9/11 07/15/2004 05:27 PM

Michael Eisner is on a panel now at Brainstorm 2004. He was asked if he regretted not distributing Fahrenheit 9/11. He said no. Disney is not partisan and the movie was clearly political. Disney is an entertainment company. He said Rupert Murdoch said no for a completely different reason. Murdoch said he hated Moore and liked Bush. That's not why Disney didn't distribute the film.

When asked whether he liked the movie, Eisner said he loved it. It was like going to a rock concert. It was entertaining, hilarious. He loved it in a non-political way.

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Brainstorm 2004 notes - Bill Joy

Brainstorm 2004 notes - Bill Joy 07/15/2004 12:18 PM

Bill Joy

I think there will be a crisis or catastrophic event that will take our attention away from terror or war and as a positive response may redefine our focus of the century.

A global pandemic/epidemic - the positive response: New found respect for natural systems and focus on health.

Environmental tip. A phase change with a irreversible climate change - the positive response: Understanding balance with natural systems.

Over self-consumption like the oil supply - the positive response: Might help wastefulness and make it a century of efficiency.

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Brainstorm 2004 - Quotes from Wesley
Clark

Brainstorm 2004 - Quotes from Wesley
Clark 07/15/2004 01:34 PM

Some good quotes from Wesley Clark...

Wesley Clark: The responsibility of Abu Ghraib does not lie in the men and women in the armed forces. It lies in with the commander and chief.

Q: Why isn't the administration being held accountable for this?

Wesley Clark: They will be held accountable in the elections.

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Wesley Clark: You can't win the war on terror by killing terrorists. You have to cut of the recruitment. It doesn't involve killing people.

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Brainstorm 2004 - interview with Ashraf
Ghani

Brainstorm 2004 - interview with Ashraf
Ghani 07/15/2004 12:18 PM

Ashraf Ghani is Afghanistan's finance minister. He was interviewed by David Kirkpatrick

Here are my notes.

Q: What's at stake in Afghanistan.

A: Positive and negative. Freedom from terror and freedom from drugs. Afghanistan can easily be turned into a mafia state. Afghan heroin has made it to California.

We have on our borders some of the largest energy producing states as well as nuclear states. The stability of Afghanistan could help stabilize this region.

Even people who's homes were accidentally bombed by Americans still welcome American soldiers. This is different than the rest of the Middle East.

We've been a trading people for a couple of thousand years. We thrive in networks, but not in hierarchies.

Q: Give us an update. The US media says Afghanistan is in quasi chaos.

A: Quasi chaos is quasi progress. US is not known for depth or understanding. They don't take push-back. They don't engage in debate.

Can't type fast enough, but he's giving a update on all of the great progress they are making.

Progress is good, but problem is expectations. Bush and Blair got up and promised a miracle.

70% of our people live under $1 a day. How do you convince people $1B is a small amount of money.

I'm not going to chase foreign aid and I want to get out of foreign aid in 10 years.

$1 of foreign investment is worth $5-$10 in foreign aid.

Kofi Anan is a great leader but the UN system doesn't work. There are lessons from Afghanistan that can help other countries.

Q: What is the prospect that you can get a grip on the drug mafia in Afghanistan.

A: They told me I had 0.1% chance of success. Cotton will not compete with poppy, but the T-Shirt will.

Poppy is a male crop. Women are not involved in the cultivation of poppy. What a family looks for is its overall income. How do we connect the women to the market. The management skills to get them to the value change.

Every drug producing center of Afghanistan is a center of cotton production. Tax incentives for textile companies would help. Security for textile cities.

Seasonal labor is the weak point of the drug industry.

They need to be given an assurance that things will get better.

It took Thailand 10 years. Afghanistan doesn't have 10 years because it could be taken over by the mafia before that.

Q: Moving companies to Afghanistan could help deal with this mafia issue which is putting the world at risk. They aren't coming because they are afraid?

A: July of 2002, there wasn't a single mobile phone in Kabul. Now my mobile phone from Afghanistan works here. The US spends $11B / yr security in Afghanistan. Security is not about spending money on military. It's about jobs.

Afghanistan is growing quickly. If it could be given a push....

Q: Are you optimistic long term with relationship between the region and the US.

A: The classic age of Islam needs to be understood. We didn't go through the medieval period. This is a confident culture. The extremists exist because of lack of open debate and dialog and this is because of the cold war. Most muslims are moderate. Go to muslim countries. You'll find people like you. We are in clashes. We are not focused enough on solutions.

I'll turn it around. Can you function without the Middle East? Can you exist without oil from the Middle East? If you can't exist without us, we need to focus on solutions.

The risk to my life is about 95% which is worth the risk of saving the millions of people of Afghanistan. I was educated by the people and it was a price I was willing to pay.

Q: You talked about the drug mafia but not about warlords? What do you do with the rest of the country where you can't protect people from the warlords.

A: The ministry of finance is collecting from every corner of the country and we have influence across the country. We need to look at diverse sources of power.

Up until now, monopoly of violence was the source of power. Rules are also power. These people are afraid. Human rights prosecution, etc. They are afraid. We haven't addressed these issues. 80% of Afghanistan has always been self-policed. Need to enhance the social capital of the regions. Communities that ensure security should get reconstruction assistance. Getting free of drugs should provide more assistance.

The answer is about understanding cold self-interest. We've rebuilt the country a hundred times in the past. We'll rebuild. But the rest of the world has to understand the issues to provide help.

Q: Are the terrorists working with the drug mafia.

A: Drug money is easy fast money. $4B in Afghanistan, $40B outside of Afghanistan. The ability for this to do harm is huge.

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Brainstorm 2004 notes - Bjorn Lomborg

Brainstorm 2004 notes - Bjorn Lomborg 07/15/2004 12:18 PM

Bjorn Lomborg

What if hospitals only dealt with patients who made the most fuss. That's what it seems like we do with global resource allocation for global problems. Why don't we prioritize? What if we had an extra$ 50Bn to allocate. What would you spend it on?

HIV aids?
Schools?
Climate age?
Malnutrition?

W need rational basis on our spending.

The Copenhagen Consensus was a group of leading economists who got together to try to prioritize based on best information available.

What we would do:

1- Prevent HIV - $27Bn will save 29M lives
2- Micronutrients - $13Bn will help more than 1/2 the world
3- Free Trade - would create more than $2000Bn / yr
4- Treat Malaria - $12Bn could come back 10X or more

What we wouldn't do?

Kyoto (global warming) is not a good use of money

Focus on high benefit projects.

We now have the list. We have to get the rest of the world on board.

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Brainstorm 2004 notes - Teresa Heinz
Kerry

Brainstorm 2004 notes - Teresa Heinz
Kerry 07/15/2004 12:18 PM

Teresa Heinz Kerry: "If you leave children behind, it has been for naught." "People want America to be great again." The Republican party is totally different from the days of her late husband. Back then they used to even intermarry with Democrats. Back then they practiced the Socratic method.

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Brainstorm 2004 tutorial notes -
Rational Executive

Brainstorm 2004 tutorial notes -
Rational Executive 07/15/2004 12:18 PM

The Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity - Michael C. Jensen

Here are my notes. They are rough notes and may be a bit inaccurate or unclear.

Any time two or more people try to engage in cooperative activities, there is a cost because they never have the same preferences.

Stock options should be adjusted to dividends and cost of capital or their incentives are not aligned with shareholders.

If you as a manager find yourself in a situation where your stock is overvalued. It sets up pressures that cause people to destroy value. When an executive commits fraud to deliver market expectation, they know it's overvalued. 70bn peak but was worth 30bn for Enron. They had a choice of defending the 70bn or confess that it's really only worth 30bn. The board and the investors won't feel that it is value reseting, but rather value destruction and would fire the CEO and look for someone who could perform. No easy way to correct. Probably prevent from getting there. If you're there, you've probably lost your job.

Enron could have stopped the run-up, but they didn't see the downside of the run-up. "Charlie and I get just as uneasy when a company is selling for more than the intrinsic value than when it is trading at less." - Warren Buffet.

Overvaluation is managerial heroin. Feels good at the beginning, but turns out really bad at the end. The pressures of the market cause messing with the gray area of accounting. People raise money to buy companies and destroy more value. Funding of risky investment.

For every $1 in the purchase price, $2.31 is lost in the value of the firm for Nortel when investors realized that the acquisitions were not adding value. Companies destroy value with acquisitions. They con the market into believing that they can add value so it postpones the day of reckoning, but it eventually comes and comes bigger. Bad acquisitions were overwhelmingly with stock. Auctions with multiple irrational people increasing irrationality.

Throwing stock options in is like throwing gasoline on the fire. The solution is in the governance system. Can't solve all problems with incentive systems. You need honest and intelligent people who are monitoring. Unwinding constraints. Lockups after vesting.

Why did the shorts shut down shop at the beginning of the turn-around and didn't correct the problems.

95% of waste from stock options went to people lower than the top five officers. Some people think it is costless to issue options, but this isn't true.

DON'T LET YOUR STOCK GET OVERVALUED. If your stock is overvalued, YOU ARE GOING TO BE IN TROUBLE.

Solution for not having stock overvalued. Communicate your strategy. Don't forecast earnings in value. Publish audit-able metrics for strategy. Stop producing short term earnings forecasts. Would not even do rolling 12 month earnings forecast. Managers should not be in business of forecasting.

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Brainstorm 2004 session notes - The
decline in America's reputation

Brainstorm 2004 session notes - The
decline in America's reputation 07/15/2004 12:18 PM

Now is tutorial session: The decline in America's reputation - Keith Reinhard w/ Pattie Sellers - What imact does it have on the U.S. and American brands? Reinhard will speak about a major new study.

Here are my notes. They are rough notes and may be a bit inaccurate or unclear.

Most people associate America with American's brands. Interesting to note that Carly Fiorina said that she didn't think that she suffered from America's bad imaged in response to a question by Martin Varsavsky.

"If you must talk, can you at least lower the volume..." - advice by foreigner to American about their voice.

The presentation made it clear that people outside of America have many negative feelings towards America and that most American's didn't care. The question they are addressing is, what can businesses in America do?

Tools to help Americans behave seems to be one of the answers...

Singaporean participant : suggesting that it's not just behavior of individuals, but that financial and business decisions made in America impact people in other countries that also affects opinions about America.

It's not business that's the biggest problem, it's US policy. It's the people who can cause changes in US policy and the only way to get people to change is to get them to understand what people think of the US. Most people don't know.

Chinese participant : doing all this work to get US image back will never get the image back to the original big brother image of the US and maybe the goal should be to just become a global peer.

African participant : is there a way for cultural exchange that is less superficial than movies and brands. Maybe people are more similar than we think. How about exchange programs that allow people to live together.

Japanese participant : Q: To what extent does change of government affect how people hate America. A: Resentment has grown over a long period of time, not just during this administration. "Insensitive, arrogant and materialistic." These issues we can address without just government change. Business could address non-government issues and also influence government.

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26-firm consortium to brainstorm 3G 2.0

26-firm consortium to brainstorm 3G 2.0 12/31/2004 10:37 AM
Engadget Dec 31 2004 1:54PM GMT

New: Web Crossing Brainstorm Plug-in

New: Web Crossing Brainstorm Plug-in 04/27/2004 10:16 AM
Web Crossing released a Brainstorm Plug-in for its Web Crossing 5 and Web Crossing Express web collaboration and community software.

Mobl0gging Fortune's Brainstorm Con in
Aspen

Mobl0gging Fortune's Brainstorm Con in
Aspen 07/14/2004 10:00 AM
Cameron Sinclair, the man who co-founded a very interesting organization called Architecture for Humanity, is mo-pho-blogging Fortune Magazine's Brainstorm Conference. Here's a Link to the blog.

Microsoft Longhorn shoehorn more corn
brainstorm

Microsoft Longhorn shoehorn more corn
brainstorm 04/06/2005 04:39 AM
osOpinion Apr 6 2005 8:38AM GMT

Jeff Hawkins' Bold Brainstorm Unveiled

Jeff Hawkins' Bold Brainstorm Unveiled 03/26/2005 09:27 PM
Sci-Tech Today Mar 26 2005 11:55PM GMT

Groups brainstorm ways to thwart Ivan &
Co

Groups brainstorm ways to thwart Ivan &
Co 09/14/2004 08:23 PM
USA Today Sep 15 2004 0:25AM GMT

ConceptDraw MINDMAP 3.0 adds new ways to
brainstorm

ConceptDraw MINDMAP 3.0 adds new ways to
brainstorm 04/16/2004 07:33 AM
Ukrainian developer Computer Systems Odessa introduced Concept Draw MINDMAP 3.0 on Thursday. The major upgrade to the company's brainstorming tool adds an outline view that lets you easily switch between a map and its textual description, a new user interface designed to better facilitate mind mapping and performance enhancements that help the application work faster with large maps.

Phonecammed: Eisner at Brainstorm,
wearing Mickey T-shirt

Phonecammed: Eisner at Brainstorm,
wearing Mickey T-shirt 07/15/2004 01:55 PM
Joi Ito phonecammed this moment of zen at the Brainstorm conference. Link< /a> to moblog snapshot, and see Joi's wiki for multiple posts about his experience at the Fortune confab. Including these words from Ted Turner:

[Turner] "The invasion of Iraq was the biggest debacle in the history of the world... except maybe the AOL Time-Warner merger. The AOL Time-Warner merger was bullshit.
[Moderator] You were quoted as saying that signing was as good as having sex for the first time.
[Turner] I was just being a team player. It wasn't really. It was the stupidest move I've ever seen. Almost as stupid as the war on Iraq... Gerald Levine was like Rasputin. He was my enemy. But he said he was my best friend. I said to him, "Gerald, I've never been to your home." But I was a team player. I always pulled for the team. We split the money with Jim Baker 50/50. We used to open the envelopes together as they came in because we didn't trust each other."
[Moderator] Can you start a new empire from now?
[Moderator] No. I'm too old/tired. I'm doing bison... they are the original American cattle.

Web Crossing Brainstorm plug-in aids
team problem-solving

Web Crossing Brainstorm plug-in aids
team problem-solving 04/26/2004 11:42 AM
Web Crossing Inc. on Monday released its new Brainstorm Plug-in, an add-on for the company's eponymous online collaboration software. The new plug-in uses a three-stage brainstorming process to help online teams work through problems. It's free for a limited time and available for download now.

Savvion Founder to Speak on Business
Process Management Solutions at
Brainstorm BPM Conference

Savvion Founder to Speak on Business
Process Management Solutions at
Brainstorm BPM Conference 04/13/2005 06:02 AM
Market Wire Apr 13 2005 9:53AM GMT

OZZFEST 2004: Press Conference Video
Posted Online - June 16, 2004

OZZFEST 2004: Press Conference Video
Posted Online - June 16, 2004 06/17/2004 05:29 AM
Roadrun.com - Thu Jun 17, 08:11 am GMT

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: May 16, 2004 - May 22, 2004
Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: May 16, 2004 - May 22, 2004
Archives 05/19/2004 06:01 AM
The Case for Kerry's "Stand Back and Let Bush Hang Himself" Tactics, by Josh Marshall 5/18 .. also discusses his thoughts on how Kerry has run his campaign so far .. Anemic president vs. anemic challenger .. My talking points

talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_05_16.php#002963
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International Conference Of Numerical
Analysis And Applied Mathematics 2004
(icnaam 2004)

International Conference Of Numerical
Analysis And Applied Mathematics 2004
(icnaam 2004) 12/07/2003 04:56 AM
NetLib Dec 7 2003 4:14AM ET

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: May 02, 2004 - May 08, 2004
Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: May 02, 2004 - May 08, 2004
Archives 05/04/2004 10:56 AM
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: May 02, 2004 - May 08, 2004 Archives .. JoshMarhsall opines .. says

talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_05_02.php#002906
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Bilderberg conference 2004 - Stresa,
Italy 3-6 June 2004 - 50th anniversary

Bilderberg conference 2004 - Stresa,
Italy 3-6 June 2004 - 50th anniversary 06/05/2004 05:49 AM
Participant list and more info (slightly tin-foil hat-ish) here .. Bilderberg Participants 2004 .. the guest list

bilderberg.org/2004.htm#participants
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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: May 09, 2004 - May 15, 2004
Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: May 09, 2004 - May 15, 2004
Archives 05/11/2004 03:33 AM
powerfully about the Abu Ghraib situation and its aftermath .. Josh Marshall is as splendid as ever .. Talking Points Memo

talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_05_09.php#002940
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Security Update 2004-06-07 Plugs Launch
Services Holes (07-Jun-2004; 2.7K)

Security Update 2004-06-07 Plugs Launch
Services Holes (07-Jun-2004; 2.7K) 06/07/2004 10:03 PM

Macworld Expo SF 2004: Enter the Musical
Trojan Horse (12-Jan-2004; 10.7K)

Macworld Expo SF 2004: Enter the Musical
Trojan Horse (12-Jan-2004; 10.7K) 01/16/2004 11:34 AM

January 2004 Zillman Column: Finding
Experts on the Internet 2004

January 2004 Zillman Column: Finding
Experts on the Internet 2004 12/27/2003 05:28 PM
January 2004 Zillman Column - Finding Experts on the Internet 2004
http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Finding Experts on the Internet 2004.pdf
http://www.zillmancolumns.com/
http://www.InternetExperts.inf o/

The January 2004 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Finding Experts on the Internet 2004. This column brings together the many resources for finding qualified experts on the Internet. The Internet is the source for literally thousands upon thousands of experts on every subject and this column gives you a comprehensive listing of where to find these experts and is taken from my Subject Tracer™ Information of Blog. This is a "must" reference for anyone even thinking about obtaining the leading expert in your business or special interest subject area!

"Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 25, 2004 - May 01, 2004
Archives"

"Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 25, 2004 - May 01, 2004
Archives" 05/03/2004 02:23 AM

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: May 30, 2004 - June 05, 2004
Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: May 30, 2004 - June 05, 2004
Archives 06/04/2004 01:51 PM
And he's acting weird about chores like announcing resignations(firings) of top playas. But .. John Micah Marshall on Tenet's resignation, June 3 .. George Tenet just resigned .. commentary .. more

talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_05_30.php#003036
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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 25, 2004 - May 01, 2004
Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 25, 2004 - May 01, 2004
Archives 05/02/2004 08:25 AM
here's Josh Marshall on Bush's racism .. Bush Talks About Race (Again)! .. are racist .. elsewhere

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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: June 27, 2004 - July 03, 2004
Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: June 27, 2004 - July 03, 2004
Archives 06/28/2004 09:57 AM
a rather interesting piece up about Yellocake .. some things to say .. lot more specific

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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: August 29, 2004 - September
04, 2004 Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: August 29, 2004 - September
04, 2004 Archives 08/31/2004 02:19 AM
The Bush retreat? .. Talking Points Memo .. which end is up .. Today

talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_08_29.php#003377
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Excerpts Of Remarks Prepared For
Delivery At The 2004 Republican National
Convention On Monday, August 30, 2004

Excerpts Of Remarks Prepared For
Delivery At The 2004 Republican National
Convention On Monday, August 30, 2004 08/30/2004 10:15 AM
Excerpts Of Remarks Prepared For Delivery At The 2004 Republican National Convention .. press release .. his speech

biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040829/nysu027_1.html
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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: February 29, 2004 - March 06,
2004 Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: February 29, 2004 - March 06,
2004 Archives 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
about to get very, very interesting .. Big Trouble? An article .. Josh Marshall's blog .. some context

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Security Update 2004-09-16 Fixes iChat
Vulnerability (20-Sep-2004; 1.4K)

Security Update 2004-09-16 Fixes iChat
Vulnerability (20-Sep-2004; 1.4K) 09/20/2004 09:00 PM

2004 International CES: 2004 CES
Innovations Awards Honorees

2004 International CES: 2004 CES
Innovations Awards Honorees 12/25/2003 05:34 AM
vyhlasila viteze rocniku 2004 .. Best of Innovation Awards .. Innovations 2004 winners .. HDTiVo approaches .. honoured products .. CES

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LNSA-#2004-0015: buffer overflow in
samba (Jul, 23 2004)

LNSA-#2004-0015: buffer overflow in
samba (Jul, 23 2004) 07/23/2004 04:11 PM
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MapPoint 2004 and Streets and Trips 2004
Construction Update

MapPoint 2004 and Streets and Trips 2004
Construction Update 06/09/2004 01:06 AM
Download the construction information update to keep the road construction projects information of your maps current in Streets and Trips 2004.
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