My rule for posting has been not to miss a day. In the words of my friend who started me writing
If you miss one day, you can miss two. If you miss two, it’s all over.
Words to live by. Our habits define a big part of who we are. I hope people don’t mind my back-posting today.
Downtown Manhattan is without power, water, internet, etc. The hallways and staircases of apartment buildings like mine are pitch black. Without connections we don’t really know what’s going on beyond our immediate environment. I’m writing from a connection in mid-town.
No one is complaining. In fact, the mood is neighborly, as I see it.
Electrical power, plumbing, and internet connection don’t make us who we are. What we do and our relationships do.
About Joshua
Former rocket scientist now entrepreneur, leadership coach, speaker, and artist, Joshua Spodek (PhD ’00, Astrophysics; MBA ’06; both Columbia University) has succeeded at many big things that few people even try. More importantly, he loves everything he does.
A modern renaissance man, he studied with Nobel Prize winners and helped build a European Space Agency X-ray satellite to observe supernova remnants, then started a business now operating globally based on several of his patents. He coaches leadership with the Columbia Business School Program on Social Intelligence and taught at New York University and the New School. He earned five Ivy-League diplomas; has shown his art in solo gallery shows and museums and installed large public art in New York and around the world; socializes with Academy Award winners; ran five marathons; and competed at national and global sporting events.
He has been quoted and profiled in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Fortune, CNN, and the major broadcast networks. Esquire Magazine named him “Best and Brightest” in its annual Genius issue.
More here:
http://joshuaspodek.com/about
