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Doing work that matters
“Eating ice cream is easy. Making something that matters is hard.” — from the book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? Most of the time, you never even think about it. Ice cream is ice cream, and if you don’t like ice cream, you are probably lying. And yes, there’s the least resistance when it comes to Read more
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How we got here
From The Invented History of ‘The Factory Model of Education’: One of the most common ways to criticize our current system of education is to suggest that it’s based on a “factory model.” An alternative condemnation: “industrial era.” The implication is the same: schools are woefully outmoded. Podcast highlights: “In a standardized system, individuality does Read more
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Are you ready for a world in which…?
A major social network company purchases a top global bank and becomes the first social credit provider. It bases mortgage rates, loan approvals, and credit access on deep data collected by its social platform. It takes into consideration the credit histories of close friends and family, locations visited (including frequency of visits to places like Read more
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Behind closed doors
Who are you behind closed doors? Are you the same person whenever you are outside and in the sight of everybody? Or are you just putting up a show in front of everyone else? Maybe it’s time to ask this question as you turn off the lights tonight. And hopefully, when you wake up the Read more
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Faking it?
It’s tricky to be confident about something you are not confident with. The world might say, “Fake it until you make it.” However, you can only fake it up to a point before you begin to fear people knowing the truth. And when they do, because they surely will (as the famous passage says that Read more
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Reflections on becoming
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