A good facilitator absorbs awkwardness to help people connect and progress faster. If you were to approach someone at a networking event and ask them a strange question like "what's the weirdest …
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Working on important problems
It takes just as much energy to solve important problems as it does to solve unimportant ones. My friend said this the other day and it really got me thinking. In some ways it’s true. If you’re going …
The shortest distance
When you recognize that the point of your project is to deeply change a human being, then you can ask the question: what’s the shortest distance between those two points? …
A new question to optimize for
What if we optimized for what lights students up? Rather than developing worksheets and assigning reading, how might we make sure the student is activated first? We can still assign the reading and …
Creating space for others
As space was created for us, we must create space for others. Space to take risks, to learn, to be vulnerable, to be our true selves. Because if we look around, we’ll see that space is abundant. …
Unpacking ideas
When you set out to solve a problem, it's useful to make a table. Starting with the problem, across the top, dig into why it's a problem. Each answer to "why" is a new column. Below each "why," start …