Describe some of the important experiences of your life:
Winning the Nebraska state cross country championship in high school, meeting Allen Ginsberg in college, marching on Washington in the biggest anti-Vietnam demonstration, teaching elementary school in Chicago, being in the delivery room for the birth of my daughter and then my son, teaching on the Pine Ridge reservation and taking part in the Wounded Knee rebellion, working for the company that invented the personal computer, meeting Bill Gates when he was 19, working for Adam Osborne, marrying Jacqueline Poitier, starting PC Magazine in the spare bedroom of my house and watching it grow to 800 pages, leaving PC magazine with the whole staff to start PC World, working with Steve Jobs to launch Macworld magazine on the day Apple introduced the Macintosh, salvaging BioWorld after I almost screwed up for good, recovering from various character flaws, taking New Media public with Richard Landry, saving Upside and turning it into a real company, meeting Rosa Parks, flying the Concord, publishing the biography my Dad wrote,dealing with my son's tragic death, adopting Buffy, helping my granddaughters grow up, hanging on some friends from my childhood, writing a real solid health book (Count Down Your Age) with Dr. Vagnini, meeting Chad Lewis, co-founding ELDR.
What's your biggest regret?:
List your most inspiring heroes.:
Thomas Paine, Andre Malraux, Toussaint Louverture, Trotsky, Isaac Newton, Muhammad Ali, Crazy Horse, Orson Wells, Jonas Salk, Rosa Parks, Allen Ginsberg, Rachel Carson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Charles Darwin
List your favorite movies.:
1. A Fish Called Wanda 2. Do the Right Thing 3. Vertigo 4. Cross of Iron 5. Tora Tora Tora 7. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 8. Some Like it Hot 9. Dr. Strangelove 10. Runaway Train 11. Stalingrad 12. China Town 13. Citizen Kane 14. Dead Man 15. Touch of Evil 16. The Big Lebowski 17. Kurosawa’s Dreams 18. Missouri Breaks 19. A Bridge Too Far 20. Amadeus
List the most recent books you have read.:
On the Road (The Original Scroll) by Jack Kerouac, The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn by Joseph M. Marshall III, Strawberry Fields by Marina Lewycka, a long way gone by Ishmael Beah, Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson, The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan, God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens, The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam, The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis
Who are your favorite musicians?:
Miles Davis, Bobby Dylan, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Cannonball Adderley, Mose Allison, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane,Santana, Jimmy Smith, Roland Kirk, Shostakovich, Neil Young, Janus Joplin
Where would you most like to travel?:
Leningrad (i.e., St. Petersburg)
What is your educational background?:
the school of life and a stopover at the University of Nebraska
List the most interesting people you have known or met.:
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Allen Ginsberg, Abby Hoffman, John Brockman, Adam Osborne, Rosa Parks,Robin Williams,Vernell White Thunder,Willie Mays, Cecil Williams, Herbie Hancock, Paul Allen, Richard Saul Wurman, Bill Ziff, Aaron Bunnell
If you had an extra $100,000 to give away, what would you do?:
