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How To Not Hate LinkedIn (And Start Building *Real* Connections)
“I want to be a superhero, I want to be Spider-Man or Batman. Will you let me know if you have any connections? Let’s make it happen.” -Stephan James LinkedIn is not the problem. LinkedIn is not the problem; you are. Now, before you un-connect with me, hear me out. So many of us are
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How Butterfly Wings Inspired New Tech
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” -Maya Angelou Butterfly wings are inspiring new technology. When you picture the first whispers of spring, and the vivid colors of flowers and butterflies in your garden, perhaps your mind doesn’t first go to
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The Ultimate Not To Do List To Reclaim Your Dreams
“Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.” -Adam Hochschild The Start Of My (Not) To Do List. 6 months ago, I quit Instagram. Why? I had been saying I wanted to read more for a long time, and the excuse was always the same: “I don’t have enough time.” So I crunched
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4 Tech Inventions That Prove Magic Happens When Fields Collide
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead Tech jobs are for everyone. We often think of tech in terms of software engineers and data analysts. But maybe there is more to the picture than we realize. Ever since
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How To Test Ideas In The Real World
“There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” -R. Buckminster Fuller Thinking isn’t testing. When I was little, I used to think the way to tell if you really knew something was by sitting down with a test and then reflecting on your score. If you could memorize every
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A “What If” Exercise That Will Change How You Think
“Mama always said you could tell an awful lot about a person by the kind of shoes they wear.” ― Forrest Gump A “What If” Exercise What if running didn’t leave a trail of microplastics behind? Let me elaborate. I have a love-hate relationship with running. We go way back, and the relationship is pretty
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How To *Actually* Rethink Circular Design
“Make it simple, but significant.” — Don Draper. Design From A Thought Experiment. One of the books I enjoyed recently- Cradle To Cradle- got me thinking a lot about circular design. Not only have I experienced the slight despair about the short life span of most products and packaging, but I’ve also experienced a surge
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Secrets To Designing Your Dream Job (For Indecisive People)
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” —Alice Walker The Jobs You’re Supposed To Want. Were you one of those kids who fumbled around cluelessly, not knowing how to answer when adults asked what sort of job you wanted as a “grown-up”? Did you love science
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Books That Changed My Life In The Past 6 Months
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” – Lemony Snicket How To Get Addicted Reading Books Since January, I have embarked on the goal of reading 500 hours worth of books in 2025. After studying some of the alleged daily habits of men like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and Oprah Winfrey,
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The Block: The Ultimate Design For A Healing World
“With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship – it’s whatever you can imagine.” -Christopher Miller What I Learned From Playing With Blocks Perhaps the most memorable shared generational memory is of building unique LEGO creations one block at a time.
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How To Change The World By Unlocking The Invisible
““Leonardo da Vinci, the defining Renaissance man and perhaps the greatest intersectionalist of all times, believed that in order to fully understand something one needed to view it from at least three different perspectives.” –Frans Johansson, Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation What are we trained to ignore? If you want
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The 3 Biggest Lies + 3 Biggest Secrets About Learning
““We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” — Peter Drucker The Science Of Learning At The World’s Most Innovative University After completing my first year at the world’s most innovative university, I realized that