I was talking to a Praxis participant today about the upheaval of moving, and the stress of getting settled in a new city. Finding a place to live, coordinating logistics, and working on a tight timeline for all of the above can be incredibly overwhelming. As someone who’s getting ready to move for the fifth …
Disclaimer: do not read if you don’t like spoilers. This blog post is built of them. I’ve been meaning to read The Song of Achilles for some time. I’d heard good things about the author and the writing, and I’m partial to the stories of the Greek and Roman heroes, even in retold form (The …
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In the same way that the adage is true for our bodies — we are what we eat. So too is the same true for content consumption. The ideas we intake become the foundation with which we build all of our thoughts, our ideas, and our creative processes. Our brains are constantly processing information. Be …
One of the beauties of the internet age is the inherent flexibility in the way we work. Unlike the older industrial systems (of which our industrial education system is bred), which required a certain consistency in time (when you’re using a series of wheels and gears, each cog must fit seamlessly together), our new world …
Over the past few months, I’ve become an adamant proponent of whiteboarding — as a mode of organization, but more importantly, as a structure for thinking. Every time I have a creative problem I’m solving, or a project I’m structuring, I take it to the whiteboard and I lay out a roadmap for the solution. …
“What content would you recommend to me?” has become one of my favorite questions. The above form is its simplest generalization; there’s ample room to make it more concrete. “What content on startups?” “What content on the topic of history?” Interesting people become interesting, in large part, because of two things: The things they do …
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