April Miscellaneous: Updates, Link Love and Thoughts on Burning the Midnight Oil

Apr 5, 2012 | Crafting Your Career, Professional Development, Travel

Updates: I’m bursting at the seems with about a hundred posts I want to write, and they are all currently buried in my notebooks, brain, and on half-finished word documents on my laptop. I just took a peek at the unpublished drafts in my queue (110) and the...

You Gotta Slow Down to Speed Up

Apr 2, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship

But with all this speed, we start wobbling. Making mistakes. Not seeing where we’re actually going. And too often, I see entrepreneurs and business owners prioritize speed over depth. Is it better to go fast, or to go far? Speed and consistency are two separate...

Systems Need to Change: The Future of Work, College, Education — and the Future of YOU?

Mar 26, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Crafting Your Career

What is the future of work? How about the future of education? Across the news, education reform and the way we learn seem to be undergoing a slow overhaul–or it still desperately needs one.  The future of work is constantly shifting as we untangle ourselves...

You Don’t Get it Back: Thoughts From a Swimming Alumni

Mar 22, 2012 | Swimming

It’s been a long few weeks–I’m traveling back and forth for lectures, office visits and events and find myself staring out the plane window more often than not. This morning, on the plane ride across the country from San Francisco to Philadelphia, I...

Boldness is Genius. Do it. Decide.

Mar 21, 2012 | Decision Making

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one...