How to learn anything
Making it through school means you know lots of things. But rarely do you learn how to learn. So then how do you approach learning something afterward – in real life?
Stop falling into a productivity trap
We cannot always measure the direct *productivity* output for what we're doing; stop trying.
The curious thing about curiosity
When solving problems or undertaking a new creative endeavor, cultivating curiosity is the first step to developing an exploratory mind in order to connect ideas previously unconnected.
Creativity Defined
Creativity is an elusive muse, difficult to define, and even harder to capture.
What exactly, though, is so mythical about creativity?
Love the science, hate the scientist
Jim Watson is a racist. Richard Feynman was a 'sexist pig'. Albert Einstein was a terrible husband and father. Giants in science, who each made indelible contributions to our understanding of the world, had ruinous personal traits.
5 keys to an evaluative mind
What a Chinese legend teaches us about making better modern-day decisions
Building castles made of sand
A friend of mine was thinking of leaving her current academic home to build a new Institute at BFU (big
How do you come up with a new idea?
This is the question that drove me last year to launch a new experiment called "Heureka Labs". The
Keys for developing an exploratory mind
A graduate student was recently trying to come up with an explanation for something he saw in the lab. He
The School Bus Problem
A young alien on a distant planet peers through a high-powered telescope seeing Earth’s surface and busy Earthlings. The curious alien...
