Leadership creates community. I'm writing today on leadership and creating community in a specific context for clarity, but it applies to anyone's participation in any community, online or off. I…
Regular readers know I work to communicate effectively with groups that don't know or act much on sustainability. My goal is to lead them to where they want to act…
One of my top resources on the environment is the book Limits to Growth. Reading it was revelatory. They approached the environment the way I thought made sense, then created…
Columbia University offered me nearly $10,000 to fly to Shanghai to teach an entrepreneurship class, block-week style, meaning a semester in a week, 9-5 each day. I've taught that way…
I read this commencement speech on leadership given by a military man at the University of Texas at Austin. As much as I found the speech inspiring, I couldn't help…
Yesterday's Washington Post reported "NSA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, former U.S. officials say". I commented the following at Hacker News, which got voted as the top comment, and,…
The New Yorker this week published an article titled "Diet Drugs Work: Why Won’t Doctors Prescribe Them?" I responded (on Hacker News, where you can see discussion on it) More…
Last week's post The risks of someone calling you smart and how to avoid them, got reposted on another site and generated some discussion. The site, Hacker News, is a…