My in-person leadership course, being project-based, has a project. One of my students last semester for his project created a web page—partly to express himself, partly to meet and interview people he wanted to create connections with, partly to share with the world his passion for marketing. Here he is: His name is Joe Yaqian Zhang. His blog is here. He shares his perspective on marketing things and interviews relevant[…] Keep reading →

Outlier Magazine’s Ever Gonzalez interviewed me recently and posted the podcast today, “Ep 331: Joshua Spodek Interview – Finding Your Hudson River” We talk about Learning entrepreneurship Learning leadership Swimming across the Hudson River Failure and learning from it My last book, ReModel (and hinting at the next one) Increasing your self-awareness through mental models Sidchas Check out the podcast here. If you prefer using Stitcher, here’s that link. If[…] Keep reading →

My Inc.com post today, “One Way Science and Business Don’t Match” begins One Way Science and Business Don’t Match Learning facts about leading doesn’t teach you to lead. Practice does. I stopped reading Daniel Pink’s bestseller Drive before chapter 1. I bet it’s entertaining, but if you read it to improve yourself and your career, it helps less than you think. Not to single-out Drive. I’m only using it to[…] Keep reading →

Campuses are full of students about to graduate in caps and gowns. Did you think what I did the first time you heard the term “commencement” for graduation: Wait. School is ending. It shouldn’t be called “Commencement.” It should be something about ending. Then you realize you’re entering the world outside school, which doesn’t think as much about school as you do. You realize life outside of school is just[…] Keep reading →

Below the audio from my standing-room-only talk on my entrepreneurship course at Princeton’s eLab for the Princeton Tech Meetup. Learn more about the course and register here Thank you to Venu, Chris, and Mathew for organizing, and everyone who attended for attending. Reach your potential in business and life. My courses don’t take time from the rest of life. You work with people in your life that you care about[…] Keep reading →

I wrote yesterday how I took two classes at the same time second semester senior year, but that by the end I couldn’t keep up. I wanted to add how I ended up keeping up with the class. That year, my girlfriend’s sports team made it to Nationals and got to stay on campus until leaving to go to Nationals. I was moving back to Philadelphia that summer to start[…] Keep reading →

Senior year in college I had to take a lot of physics classes to finish the major. Most people who major in physics know their major when they start college. It’s not a casual major. It has a lot of requirements and you have to take many in order since most depend on earlier ones so you don’t have much freedom. I chose in the second semester of my junior[…] Keep reading →