Checking in from Hayman Island, an amazingly gorgeous and relatively remote island off Queensland, Australia. Flew from Wednesday at 4pm (Dulles) til I arrived here local time at 6pm (LA to Sydney to Hamilton Island and then large yacht to Hayman) on the charter and gave my keynote to the World Economic Forum/Australian Leadership Retreat about 30 minutes after arriving. One of the best performances of my life. Based on feedback from WEF people, it went over like gangbusters. Hour later I'm sitting with Martin Wolf and Minxin Pei at dinner. Way cool. Meeting tons of people and getting contacts like crazy. As always, you meet some biggies and they're amazingly cool and others and they're complete assholes. But enjoy myself anymore--impossible! Thanks to Jenn for talking me into this (I said no last year) and Vonne for letting me go (she covers me at an all-day alt rock concert with eldest daughter--but Martin Wolf is "My Chemical Romance"! I try to explain to Em, who stares at me uncomprehendingly ...). All for now. The talks and panels are all stunningly good. Can't miss any.