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...
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...
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...
Today’s topic is Trendspotting. This is another in the set of 21st-century explorer skills because we have to search for signs in the uncharted territory between the industrial and information eras. Techniques for trend spotting How do we figure out what is going to happen? It comes from paying attention to signs...
YES. This is edition 28! The fourth in our cycle of seven. And a reminder to each of us to preemptively program(me) some rest and recovery - those restorative 21st-century skills. Read more in the ‘rest’ editions 7, 14 and 21. Am I the only one advocating this concept? I saved...
I pushed “publish” on my book “Contours of Courageous Parenting - Tilting Towards Better Decisions” one year ago. And today I get to do a happy dance 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 in celebration. The journey from concept to writing to publishing has been as interesting as the travel stories from our Round-the-World trip I...
Is it the AI algorithm? “Wow. I loved learning about bananas” was the response to a short story I had written on the Writing in Community site. Ever since, funnily enough, I’ve noticed a steady dribble of posts on my various newsfeeds talking about bananas. If I was ten years younger and...
A gathering and accumulation Here is the thing. An individual snowflake is almost weightless. Why then, were we in the middle of the big dig? Mesmerizing I must have missed the memo. “There is a snow storm coming through,” my husband warned the kids, “make sure you are home before it hits.” Nothing...
This is why I believe in our young generation Let’s start with two stories from the ocean. DESPAIR And a stark reminder of exactly how fast change can compound. Last year the oceans absorbed heat equivalent to seven Hiroshima atomic bombs detonating each second, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year That was a...
A Future I didn’t expect. As a futurist, I’m looking back to see forward. In a new slant to an old exercise, I videotaped a message to my future self in January 2021. It contained so many dreams and expectations for 2021 and was a hoot to watch when it popped...