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Four-and-a-Half Rules You Must Break: A Message to 2020 Grads
Class of 2020, I’m here to tell you that you need to break some rules. But first I’d like to tell you about five monkeys, a group of scientists, an experiment. And some bananas.
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Appreciation: The Common Thread of Commencement
One of the greatest graduation speeches of all time (in my humble opinion) was delivered by the late author David Foster Wallace to the Kenyon College class of 2005.
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Out of Many, One
In this moment, one truth arises above all else: Black lives matter. I do not claim to understand the experience of being Black in America. I do, however, claim to care that the experience of being Black (or any skin color, ethnicity, or orientation) in America should bring with it the same rights and privileges…
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The Golden Links of Destiny
I believe we humans are far too often guided (and, sadly, irrationally crippled) by fear or by a default setting pointed towards ‘longstanding tradition’ (which often proves baseless).
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Year-End Gift: 2019 – The Time Is Now
It is said that all things past are learnings, all things to come are possibilities, and all that we really have for sure is the present. The precious present.
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What I’ve learned about scaling a Platform company
This month, Uptake signed the 20th partner in our Platform ecosystem. These collaborators range from companies that maintain some of our country’s largest manufacturing plants to providers of edge devices for our leading utilities.
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Year-End Gift: 2018 – Get Moving
Stop reading this. Time is too precious. Get moving on your best ideas.
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An Even Better Education: Learn How to Learn, Not Just What to Learn
Teaching is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind. But what lessons are most valuable? Most of our years in classrooms consist of listening, memorizing, regurgitating — and then repeating that cycle. So I ask — were you taught how to learn?
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How Can You Be More Creative? Embrace Daily Rituals
I’m fascinated with rituals. While habits are defined as “regular tendencies or practices,” rituals represent a higher level activity, “a solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.” Whether or not you realize it, your rituals are part of your secret formula for getting stuff done—and doing it well.…
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Future of Jobs
Charles Darwin would have a lot to say about how humans will adapt to this Fourth Industrial Revolution. For one, I believe he’d tell us that we’ll evolve.