Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

Anybody can be ambitious.

Buzz is not what I am looking for.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.