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...
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...
This graduation photo is a great bracket for our 30th-anniversary edition as it celebrates the end of Write of Passage cohort 8 (WoP8). I launched my newsletter in the first week of Write of Passage cohort 7 (WoP7) way back in September 2021. And I get to thank you for...
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...
“My approach to problem-solving is to carry around a dozen interesting problems, and a dozen interesting solutions to unrelated problems, and eventually, I’ll be able to make connections. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in...
If Writing in Community is training as a sous chef, Then Build a Second Brain is figuring out my mise en place, And Write of Passage is teaching me flavour profiles and plating. How three writing courses helped me improve as a writer. “What are we grateful for this year?” We are all gathered around...