If you’re attacked, the best thing to do is “make the hunter become the hunted,” says Sliwa.

Curtis Sliwa recounts in vivid detail how in 1992 a seemingly normal cab ride turned into a near-death experience, leaving him shot and bleeding on a New York sidewalk.

Most of the United States’ health care costs come from diabetes, heart disease and obesity—problems that could be fixed by changing our behavior.

Lawyers will be much more fulfilled if they do some public service, suggests Kramer.

Kramer believes that firms hire too far in advance. They don’t know what they’re getting, and students get locked into their legal specialties prematurely.

As dean of Stanford Law, Kramer is trying to reconceptualize the three-year law program, emphasizing more practical skills lawyers will need.

The Stanford Law dean says the legal education system needs to do more to prepare students to actually practice. There are a wide set of intellectual skills that are essential […]

The expansion of the legal market around the world has benefited massive corporate law firms at the expense of small community firms, says Kramer.

A conversation with the dean of Stanford Law School.

How an expensive trip to the emergency room convinced a tech entrepreneur that there is something seriously wrong with medical care in America.

Medpedia seeks to balance the distributed nature of knowledge with the oversight of medical professionals.

The “major thesis of our lives” is that zero marginal cost technologies like the Internet are allowing systems of control to be distributed, rather than centralized.

A brief description of virtual currency and why it may revolutionize the way we pay for things on the Web.

A conversation with the chairman of Medpedia.

The best way to balance open source developing and growing your own business is to combine the two, Hansson suggests.

Hansson loves Apple’s products, but he calls their decision to restrict programming languages for iPhone apps a “fascist move.”

Cloud computing shouldn’t be an either/or decision. We should definitely make use of the tremendous collaborative possibilities of the Web for some tasks but utilize “the awesome local, graphical power […]

“They have no bearing on what I do,” says Hansson of the software giant. But he admits there is something sad about no longer having an “evil empire” to rally […]

Hansson merged Rails and Merb last year, and, despite initial “squabbles,” the fruits of their cooperation—Rails 3—is on the verge of release.

With applications like Ruby on Rails lowering the bar for creating web applications, some programmers may complain about “the unwashed masses” overrunning their “beautiful, pristine programming communities.” Hansson thinks that […]