I've written before about how Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), President Obama, and Steve Jobs (Apple) used to essentially wear the same outfit every day (not the same one among them). Zuckerberg wore the same gray t-shirt every day, Obama wore only blue or gray suits, and Jobs wore black mock turtlenecks, Levi’s, and New Balance sneakers … Continue reading These Are My Kind of Teachers
I was driving down one of our local roads (Route 30) yesterday with my son and a neighbor. The road is a four-lane "highway", with a speed limit of 25 miles per hour for significant portions of the road. As I've written about before, I'm kind of anal about speed limits, and always use a … Continue reading Sometimes Life Works Just Like You Hope It Should
William Faulkner is one of the most celebrated American authors, having won the Nobel Prize in 1949. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. But it seems that if you had met him as a teenager, you would have never … Continue reading From Post Office Failure to Nobel Prize Winner
Situation Number One: Planet Fitness, today. I'm waiting for a guy to finish hogging the pull-up machine so I can do my one set and move on to the next exercise. I'm standing 10 feet from the machine, trying to make it obvious that I'm waiting to use the machine. But the guy is oblivious, … Continue reading Situational Awareness, My Lack of
Thanks to Mary, my wife, we did at least one thing right while our kids were growing up (notice how I snuck in there to grab some of the glory...). We had books, lots and lots of books, for our kids. I can remember many nights reading to our three boys and starting to talk … Continue reading Books – the Great Equalizer
In a post from last week, I talked about the Genius Awards given by the MacArthur Foundation and focused on a particular winner, Vijay Gupta. I also noted that I thought I would turn the Genius Awards into a series of posts, profiling a different winner every week or so. This week's MacArthur Fellow is Ken … Continue reading This Is What Genius Looks Like – Part 2
Today's Wall Street Journal featured a profile of Heather Mac Donald, an American political commentator, essayist, attorney, and journalist. She is currently a Thomas W. Smith Fellow of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. Over the years, Mac Donald has been more than willing to share her opinion on a variety of issues, including victimization, philanthropy, immigration reform, crime prevention, racism, racial profiling, rape, politics, … Continue reading What Am I Missing?
It's one of my favorite weeks of the semester, one I've written about before. Students are presenting their vision boards and it has been great getting to hear what their short-term and long-term goals and dreams are. One of the students thought it would be fun to throw in what her results were from having … Continue reading My Spirit Animal Is a Turtle – What’s Yours?
Every year, the MacArthur Foundation selects between 20 and 30 individuals as MacArthur Fellows, commonly referred to as Genius Grant winners. The MacArthur Fellows Program is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations. In keeping with this purpose, the Foundation awards fellowships directly to individuals rather … Continue reading This Is What Genius Looks Like
A survey released today by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation found that only one in three Americans (36 percent) can actually pass a multiple choice test consisting of items taken from the U.S. Citizenship Test, which has a passing score of 60. Here are some of the highlights (lowlights?) from the survey: Only 13 percent of … Continue reading Most Americans Can’t Pass the Civics Test Required of immigrants. Could You?
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