Student of Life
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 [...]
The T Model is a framework I made to describe how to most effectively approach learning, work, and non-linear career progression.
In the T Model you alternate between a broad, horizontal phase and a deep, vertical phase, (though it’s actually an upside-down T because starting with the horizontal phase is a must) . In the broad, [...]
Originally posted on the Sandbox Blog
This blog post is part 2 of the Sandbox Network ‘Palomar 5′ series: a six week innovation camp in Berlin from 9 October – 24 November 2009. To follow the progress of the conference, you can view the official Palomar 5 blog. Alternatively, if you are on twitter, follow hashtag [...]
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 [...]
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 elevated. [...]
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 going there [...]
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 [...]
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 real [...]
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 [...]
