In Search of Living Genius

Try to catch the recent article by Daisy Yuhas in a special issue of Scientific American devoted to the subject of “genius”. That’s a word that’s tossed around a great deal. Some, at least, define what they mean by the term and put forth real...

A new class of educators

Education has so far avoided the kind of major disruptions we have seen in the media and publishing businesses — or the music and travel industries (to name just a few). Why? Simple, inertia. In secondary education (K-12 in the US) it has been the teacher’s unions...

Success. Failure. Bust. Boom.

In their overview blog post from Techonomy 2012,  Sarah Evelyn Harvey and Adrienne Burke describe it as “a conference about how the exponential pace of technology process makes possible a new world. We are gathering a diverse group of expert voices for a...

Nextsensing as a way of doing business

There’s a new series of profiles on Fast Company that ties neatly to (and expands upon) the theme of my post on next generation workers. As I read Robert Safian’s profile of Mark Parker at Nike or Troy Carter at Atom Factory — or the insights...

Want to become a real player?

Angry at yourself for wasting time playing Angry Birds too much? Maybe you’re not wasting all that time; maybe you’re just learning how to be more resilient. Jane McGonigal invented the game SuperBetter, wrote a book titled Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better...