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A post on Medium, along with my recent thinking about the early part of my career got me reflecting on the less than auspicious beginning to my career. From the author of the Medium post: Here’s something that I think everyone needs to learn and learn young. How to mess something up with grace and…

From Facebook, Google, Twitter agree to delete hate speech in 24 hours: Germany said on Tuesday that Facebook, Google and Twitter have agreed to delete hate speech from their websites within 24 hours, a new step in the fight against rising online racism following the refugee crisis. The government has been trying to get social…

From Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action: Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work…

I was listening to the most recent episode of This American Life and was quite disturbed by the first part of the episode where several high school student discussed the complex set of interactions that occur around the selfies they post around Instagram, which they do regularly. Commenting versus liking. What you say versus what…

I don’t normally read Shawn Blanc’s work. I blame Scott for referring me to it, but not really. It pointed to the kernel of an idea I’ve had for a while: In short, if you want to watch more TV, the universe won’t bother you. If you want to do work that matters, it’s going…

From Skullf*** You Very Much: Cultural Authority and the Dispossessed: The fact that most experts talking on TV and writing for online “news” media cannot swim in the critical deep end of the subjects in which they claim expertise is masked by the shallowness of the medium in general. The analysts and experts who are…

From Common Core Math is Not the Enemy We call this new math, but it isn’t new at all. In fact, it has been around for a very long time. It’s called number sense. And it’s the way mathematicians have been thinking about numbers for centuries. Mathematicians are insanely smart people. I should know, I…

From Why Twitter’s Dying (And What You Can Learn From It): Abuse is killing the social web, and hence it isn’t peripheral to internet business models — it’s central. It has significant chilling effects: given a tipping point, people will simply stop using a network, and walk away…and that appears to be what’s happening with Twitter. Abuse…

Last night, I did not treat the vegetable slicer with the appropriate respect and ended up lacerating my index finger on my right hand. I suspected it might need stitches, but I waited until this morning to call my doctor’s clinic and ask. They said: go to Urgent Care. So I did. The nurses there…

In my last post, I talked about making a fresh start online. I’ve started taking some steps to do exactly that and it starts with Twitter. I’ve been on Twitter since it was made public in 2006. I have tweeted a TON of things over the last 9 years, most of which is probably not…