Standardized education is broken. To improve it we must adapt it to a curriculum for the Information Age. This essay is a focus on where and why the curriculum must change.
Author: Doug
Global Digital Citizen
It's a person that spends hours a day online, interacting with a digital network of human beings and information. It's a person that shares photos, feelings, and experiences from their life with their networks. It's a person that shares information on the web that can be interacted with from anywhere in the world. Are you … Continue reading Global Digital Citizen
Process – A Ritual & Religion
Process is the foundation of success or failure. If you have a strong and resilient process, you can build upon it as you grow and achieve continuous success. If you have a poor process, it wont scale and building upon it will cause all your work to come crashing down. As you work through life, … Continue reading Process – A Ritual & Religion
Capital Allocation & Prototyping
I've been thinking about the book The Outsiders by William Thorndike and some of the lessons learned. About how the successful executives featured in the book were iconoclastic in their novel approaches to their respective industries. Chief among their traits was there understanding and devotion to strict capital allocation. Although it's typical to think of … Continue reading Capital Allocation & Prototyping
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
View the book. I bought a copy of this book after seeing several of Dan Ariely's videos on pricing and behavioral economics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDKBbrFkR_Y General Thoughts The book was a breeze to read and many of the topics covered are useful for running a business. I wrote up some of the key points that resonated with … Continue reading Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely