Student of Life
I attended the San Francisco Supernova Mixer Tuesday night, where John Hagel and John Seely Brown from Deloitte’s Center for the Edge presented their research on the Big Shift– “a major new effort to track the real impacts of what we call the Network Age. ” My copious notes on their talk are posted here. [...]
I think it’s important to become obsessed with an idea and to continually critique and iterate it, to expand the vision and then shrink it down. To get lots of feedback and talk to everybody about how you can improve your idea, and assess how to make it most valuable to your customers. Even if [...]
From Eventbrite: We’re delighted to launch our first 2009 Supernova Mixer event at Wharton Ι SF Campus on Tuesday, August 11, 5:30pm – 7:30pm. Please join us for a lively conversation with Deloitte’s John Hagel and John Seely Brown (Center for the Edge) on The Shift Index — a major new effort to track the [...]
I find the constant worry about grades quite pathetic, as if your future was dependent on their outcome. Okay they kind of are if you are planning to build your life around the perks of the educational system. But if you’re willing to put in the effort you might consider redirecting that same effort out [...]
I’m actually annoyed learning is romanticized so much. I have an image of my head of a woman with a fashionable side-bag full of books from university who purrs in a spanish european accent, “I just love learning!” Fine. That’s better not loving learning. But I find many people are content to just continue learning [...]
It’s fine to go down the academic route, but it’s unfair for all young people to be forced to go down that route. We should get to decide if we want to do academic learning at an early age. Alternatively you should just be able to do stuff, make things happen and be an entrepreneur. [...]
I’m going to experiment in the next two weeks posting a lot more off the cuff thoughts. Honestly I don’t have an hour or two to set aside for blog writing right now. I’m working really hard on a lot of projects that require a lot of focused energy. I do end up doing a [...]
Most personal development is crap. I’ve heard 95% of the industry is crap. I think that is a good number. But it’s such a big pie that the other 5% is huge and there are a lot of valuable ideas out there. Even within the 5% you can easily waste your time, if you read [...]
