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Truly a multi-faceted and multi-talented individual, David brings together experience from a variety of sources and synthesizes them into an insightful perspective on selected topics.

A late bloomer, David started as a geek, studying computer science and maths at university, and has since grown to become a telecommunications and technology guru and entrepreneur, an active contributor in the philanthropy and not-for-profits, an excellent public speaker and voice artist, a masters student, and a thinker and leader. David is totally unable to do just one thing.

David was born, bred, and currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, and is reasonably well travelled.

My passion is ...

leadership

I know too much about ...

telecoms and technology

My childhood ambition ...

to be an architect

My favorite memory ...

watching my son being pulled out of his mother by his scrawny purple legs

Why I write ...

because I have something worth saying

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

too much non-fiction

My first job ...

computer programmer

My inspiration ...

what I could be

Politics, News & Issues > US Politics (Other) Obama attempts new beginnings with Muslims

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You've probably heard a lot about Barack Obama's speech to the Muslim world in Cairo last week. Plenty was said before and after, and it may come to be a watershed moment in US-Muslim relations. Now some of you might've read the speech, or watched it (it's quite long), but for those who haven't (and those who have), here is an abridged version that will give you the gist of what all the fuss was about: Good afternoon. My name is Barack Hussein Obama, leader of what used to be the free world. I don't look like previous presidents, my name makes you wonder what I am, and I've gone to a lot o...

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