Why you need to learn to program
A generation ago, a balanced liberal arts education was measured by a student's ability to read and write. The next generation of students will be measured by digital literacy, fluency in 'coding' languages, and their ability to uncover patterns in data and communicate their findings.
Build a system to work smarter, not harder
"I'm too busy" is a thinly veiled way of saying "that's not important".
When I first heard this idea, it completely changed the way I thought about being busy. So how do we find time to do the things we want to do?
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
