Archive for the 'Learning' Category

Reinventing Educational Will Come After Revolutionizing Entrepreneurial Learning

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Below is an email I wrote to a friend about the implications of what I’m working on for the future of learning and education… I got to this point by pivoting towards the vision of finding the future of learning. I’ve been down in the details of startup culture for awhile so I forgot about [...]

The 100 Most Important Words in the Bestseller “Made to Stick”

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

We will give you suggestions for tailoring you ideas in a way that makes them more creative and more effective with your audience. We’ve created our checklist of six principles for precisely this purpose. But isn’t the use of a template or a checklist confining? Surely we’re not arguing that a “color by numbers” approach [...]

Quote of the Day

Monday, June 7th, 2010

QOTD. Buckminster Fuller, 1970: “We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of [...]

Lean Education and Learning

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

I haven’t been writing much lately. Building my public voice hasn’t been a priority. But I thought I’d share this email I wrote, (lightly edited). The ideas in this post strongly reference the lean startup theory. If you don’t know much about that, this post might be a bit confusing. …This also inspired me to [...]

5 Steps of Entrepreneurial Growth

Friday, January 8th, 2010

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 [...]

The T Model: A framework for learning, work, personal growth and non-linear career progression

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

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 [...]

What I’ve Been Up To At Palomar5

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

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 [...]

Video From My World Future Society Speech

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

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 [...]

When Exposing Yourself To New Interesting Things, Make It Closely Related To Your Core Skills

Monday, August 24th, 2009

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 [...]

Ask Why Not What & Its Role In Resolving Uncertainty

Friday, August 21st, 2009

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 [...]