I'm very impressed by the wide range of areas & disciplines you cover in your work. I'm 27, have broad interests, like to learn and build, and am feeling increasing pressure to "specialize". Journalism is too observational for me (on top of my lacking the immense perseverence and talent currently called for in that field). Any advice or thoughts on other "fence-straddling" ways to make a living?
— Jacob (New York City)

November 26, 1996

Allow me to congratulate you on your paper regarding the nature of change; it has given me a unique and global insight on some of the social phenomena ocurring in the world today. Your excellent summary of the most reputed authors on the subject is a showcase for those authors who pretend to ignore specialization in favor of a more global view. It is true that we need thinkers like yourself who can find a way to apply the discoveries of one discipline to a range of other fields. In short, you belong to the holistic species within mankind, a group which I modestly try to emulate.
— Jacques Sprenger (Mexico)

September 13, 1996

It is with great pleasure that I meet you through net. I've read some papers and articles in your home page. Especially some articles on cyber-politics such as "Teledemocracy vs. Deliberative Democracy" make me to read carefully. I think that a paper of "Electronic Democracy: A Literature Survey" also is well-summerized review. So I am going to introduce it to Korean readers interested in this area publicly. I wonder how you as author think about it. If confirmed, your paper is pressed in a book, which will be edited by me for purpose of review and observation of foreign informaional socio-political trends. I hope it will do well and your message will be introduced to Korean readers nicely and exactly. And I think it is better that your profile, list of workings, and author's letter are pressed together. If possible, please send what you think to me via e-mail. Thanks and best regards,
— S.K.Hong (South Korea)

June 23, 1996

I visited your homepage today and want to tell you that I appreciate the opportunity to read your work. Skimming the screen while my printer does its thing, I'm intrigued by your interview with Pico Iyer and your paper, "Understanding Change." Will read at leisure.

I don't know the proper method to thank someone for sharing his work on the Net. Seems like an incredible luxury to find intellectually stimulating and enjoyable writing just waiting out there in cyberspace. By the way, I found you because I was looking for anything on the Web relative to Anatole Broyard. There is a fascinating essay on him, life and work, in the June 17 New Yorker.

I'll visit your page again.
— Nancy K.

May 3, 1996

I recently discovered your home page. Congratulations on entrusting to the ether your articles and your reviews. I have a particular interest in much of what you say, because here in Ontario Canada we wrestle with issues similar to yours in America. We often feel caught between the upper jaw of big government and the lower jaw of an unfettered free market. One solution is to get out of this dichotomized mouth by looking for civic stengths likely to counterbalance the two jaws. Folks like you — in California or Prague or Bogota or Toronto — do all of us a service by finding and sharing the best ideas among us.
— John Butler (Ontario, Canada)

March 16, 1996

I enjoyed very much your interview with Marianne Williamson. I would like to read anything else you can offer about this remarkable woman's thoughts, ideas, philosophy.
— Yehoshua Zamir (Israel)