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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.

June 15, 2020
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.

December 5, 2019
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?

November 20, 2018
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.

June 11, 2018
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.

May 18, 2018
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…

May 9, 2018
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…

April 25, 2018
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 -…

April 10, 2018
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.

March 22, 2018
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.

February 15, 2018

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