Modern networking: Make things, write about ideas, and tell people what you're working on. @david_perell I had a fantastic time being part of the amazing LearningCon this week. With three days worth of sessions aimed at three different global time zones I couldn't catch them all but I came away from all of the onesContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | August 7, 2020"

“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not old.” — Rosalyn Yalow It was back to work time this week even though part of my brain is still floating on a lake in Wisconsin. Lots of uncertainty around here right now. Looks like no fall sports forContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 31, 2020"

A day wasted at the lake is time well spent. Welcome to the vacation edition of this weekly newsletter. We’ve been enjoying the beautiful Wisconsin weather out on the boat and just generally lazing around this. Slowing down for some good meals off the grill and game nights with the family have been just whatContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 23, 2020"

"Training gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration solves new problems none have solved before." —Marcia Conner I am super excited to be heading off for some much-needed vacation time. Soon after I hit the publish button on this, we’ll be loading up and heading out for some time at the lake. I’m lookingContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 17, 2020"

“You have: Training, Schooling, Benchmarks, Industry peers, Entrenched experience, Data, data, dataThey have: great ideas, not-so-great ideas. You’re the expert...not the order taker. Listen, consult & lead.” —Jen Hartman Our family is super excited to have officially started the count down until we head off to Lake Kegonsa for some much-needed downtime next week. AnotherContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 10, 2020"

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” —Vladimir Ilyich Lenin We’re coming up on a holiday weekend here in the US. Our family is looking forward to enjoying the long weekend with an extra day off and streaming Hamilton with the original cast later this evening. I’m looking forwardContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 3, 2020"

‘All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.’ –Martin Fisher It looks like we've made it to another Friday and I hope you're having a great week. I am grateful to have had my first visit with my parents since the pandemic began. It looks like our numbers here are going back upContinue reading "Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | June 26, 2020"