STEM or STEAM I was facing a conundrum. My son was considering a degree at a liberal arts school. "Impossible! Dad is an Engineer. I am a CompSci major." We are both products of a STEM education and we enjoyed positive STEM careers. As the sun sets on the Industrial Era, conventional...
If you only have a little time to dip into this essay today go straight to the section WHAT’S IN YOUR MENTAL HEALTH TOOLBOX? But please come back later. These are the key points I want you to walk away with: YES, mental fitness is an issue that is no longer...
The next few generations will live their entire lives with 👣 one foot in the Industrial Era, and the other 👣 in the Intelligence Era. If there is one idea I want you to leave with it is this: Strap in. It’s going to be a long while before we settle back into a...
Normalizing Rest. Are you one of the 24 Tribe Tilt members who joined since our last rest Edition 70 Sustainable You? Every 7th edition is a rest and recap edition. (Why Rest? Why Seven? answered here!) In an “always-on” world it is a 21st-century skill to pre-emptively rest before you...
betwixt and between the familiar and the completely unknown — Fr. Richard Rohr — Over 10,000 people are in a liminal space right now - hunting for new opportunities, searching for a grip on the unfamiliar slippery rock face on a climb they did not choose. Their minds are struggling to...
Can this be a road map to transition out of the Industrial Era? If we are wise, we can learn lessons from dinosaurs [1993] was the year the Korean government observed that the Steven Spielberg dinosaur blockbuster [Jurassic Park] had made more money than Hyundai, the car behemoth that is a wellspring...
My heart was pounding as I handed my youngest child the stack of N95 masks, tea and Tylenol. I watched my son carefully assembling the familiar packing cubes for the 8-week internship he was starting in San Francisco. The luggage had last been used 90 days ago. It had carried...
Hidden messages in logos? "Amazon has the smile, FedEx has the arrow. What message is hidden in your logo?" You know, that secret message that you cannot unsee once you know about it? I thought a lot about messaging this past weekend while I was participating in Nate Kadlac’s Approachable Design course. This...
Keep iterating until you find what works for you It was as if an invisible thread from the vibrant yellows and iridescent blues reeled me in. Van Gogh has been tugging at my heart ever since I walked past the Irises in the Garden in the Impressionist gallery at the Met (Metropolitan...
Design your future and invite it in "If I am going to put in those kinds of hours any way I want to do work that matters. Work that has impact - that invigorates and engages me so I don’t notice the time flying by ." I hear it so often...