Student of Life
One of the primary stitches running across my life cloak:
The primary engine driving economic growth is innovation. And we are in the midst of transitioning to a new innovation landscape as corporations are dying and the startup ecosystem matures. The innovation landscape is the overlapping theme for most of what I’m thinking about and working [...]
I defined 5 steps in the entrepreneurial journey that I think most people go through. The distribution is a pyramid and only a small percentage of people make it through each stage.
(1) No Desire —intrinsic motivation suppressed (usually by the school system) (2) Desire to make an impact and be entrepreneurial, but uncertainty about how [...]
Original post can be found here.
There are two types of organizations that are driving a majority of our economic growth: the startup and the large corporation.
On one hand, we have startups, which are where the innovation is happening and on the other hand, we have corporations, which have the advantages of scale and abundant resources. [...]
Most of this blog has been about broad intellectual topics, but if you’ll forgive some self-indulgence, I’m going to begin to share some more personal anecdotes. I just finished a post on passion and what I advocate for how to find it, and now I’m going to give you a small glimpse into some of the [...]
Long awaited, I finally have the video after wrangling with file format difficulties, technical workarounds and trips that left my time in front of the computer fragmented.
This is only my 2nd or 3rd public speech I’ve given, excluding participation on panels, but I hope to do more in the future. Unfortunately due to time constraints [...]
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 new [...]
“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 on [...]
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 be [...]
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 [...]
I believe what the world needs most is a large crop of motivated lifelong learners who are capable of seeing big problems in the world and solving them. I would like to see in the next year, these people go out and make their transformative ideas a reality. I would like to see these people [...]
