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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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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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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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Survival of the (Digitally) Fittest
One the first American industrial magnates was also one of our first self-made entrepreneurs. He was a ruthless businessman, eliminating his competition by drastically reducing costs and cutting shrewd deals.
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Dr. Irwin Adam Eydelnant: 4 Insights from the Mind Behind the Museum of Ice Cream
Dr. Irwin Adam Eydelnant, Founder & Creative Scientific Director of Future Food Studio and BEVLAB, is changing the way we think about food.
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The Upside Podcast – Dr. Irwin Adam Eydelnant: There Are No Rules
Dr. Irwin Adam Eydelnant is a food design technologist known as the “Willy Wonka of Toronto.” As founder and principal of the Future Food Studio, he spins up out-of-this world experiences that have changed the way we interact with and experience food and drinks. And, unless you’ve been taking a hiatus from social media, you’ve…
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What Baseball & Politics Can Teach Us About Leadership: 4 Lessons from Political Strategist David Axelrod
On October 27, 1960 in New York City, five-year-old David Axelrod went to see John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail in Stuyvesant Town at the corner of 21st and 1st. As he sat on top of a mailbox and watched the young presidential candidate speak to the crowd, he had a sense that something…
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The Upside Podcast – Sarah Feinberg: Lessons from the White House to Silicon Valley
In the second of The Upside’s series with political disruptors, Brad chats with Sarah Feinberg, former chief administrator at the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). From the Hill to the White House to Silicon Valley and back, listen in as they discuss what she’s learned during her unique career. Feinberg – one of Uptake’s advisors -…
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College Basketball Doesn’t Just Build Character, It Reveals Character
So said Marv Levy, the Hall of Fame NFL coach (and native Chicagoan). With the NCAA basketball tournament well underway, my version of that insight is this — college basketball doesn’t just build character, it reveals character.
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Rewarding Brilliance, Creating Failure (and Innovation)
In 2008 and 2009, coders, mathematicians and at least one psychologist became singularly focused on one problem: Improving Netflix’s recommendation algorithm.