Student of Life
Spend 80% of your time on your passions, improving your core skills. There are plenty of things you can find that simply meet the “interesting” criteria. The argument that colleges expose you to things you wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to is not that compelling a value proposition because it is not very hard to find [...]
On Thursday I attended Crowdsourcing for Social Good a great panel, with great attendees who I witnessed cook up some great things the mixer time surrounding the panel. Here I’ve written up one cautionary note about crowdsourcing for people who are engaged in their work, and a few notes from the evening. I don’t think that [...]
I started to write a comment on Cal Newport’s provocative post on whether a remarkable life requires courage or effort?…and while I tried to formulate my opinion on the matter while brushing my teeth enough thoughts broke through my conflicted un-opinionated state to warrant the comment stand-alone status: The process that I have seen work [...]
“Visioning” From the Force For the Future Blog: We believe the larger long term direction we’re heading towards is becoming the liaison for “Real World University”, the best learning environment of all, where passion, learning and work are all fluid and intimately related. Making an impact and creating value in the workplace is increasingly dependent [...]
Most people only ask the “what” questions. What are you doing lately? What’s up? What did you do yesterday? What are you going to do this summer? What are you studying? It takes a rare breed of person to ask the “why” and “how” questions. The “why” and “how” questions are much more interesting and [...]
I recently followed a link to this article on Wired profiling the first scientific discovery made by a machine with no human intervention. This doesn’t signal the end of the role human scientists. Instead it puts increasing upward pressure on scientists developing their creative faculties. And this trend is not prevalent just in science. Everything [...]
A story from my childhood on the importance of intrinsic motivation for learning. On Sunday we had a family party at my house and invited many of the people who were important during the early years of my family. The occasion was a mix of both my parents 25th anniversary and my twin sister and [...]
Desmond Tutu: If a young man says to you, sir Richard, if I want to be successful what must I do? Branson: You must realize that money is not the definition of success, you want to get involved with whatever interests you in life and try to do it the best you can, it may [...]
On Thursday Morning, I was fortunate enough to sit down with Alan Webber over an early morning coffee, who founded Fast Company over a decade ago. We were talking about some of the skills young people should have in order to launch successful ventures. Alan noted that while someone is trying to get a startup [...]
Most people are going to disagree with me here, but I find it sad that Seth Berger checked out after finishing with AND1. I think having kids was the culprit for the decrease in desire, and this case isn’t the exception. “Knowledge@Wharton: Clearly you have experienced a lot of success in a very competitive industry. [...]
