When Jake Carpenter started Burton Snowboards, he spent years messing around with designs, manufacturing and optimization. At any moment while he was toiling away in a garage, a big ski company could …
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Time Scarcity
When you have to cover 150 days of content, and you only have 160 days to do, you have to limit distractions. With assemblies, field trips, snow days and more, it's inevitable that you will end up …
Optimal Productivity
It's common to confuse productivity with optimal productivity. Organizing the filing cabinet is productive, but it's far from an optimal level of productivity. When I think about what is optimal, …
Uncomfortable conversations for a better whole
On Thursday I witnessed one of the most profound moments in my work with young people. We are running an internship program for ten students between the age of 14 and 8 to learn to be effective …
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Non negotiable skills
It’s not a question of what is and is not important. It’s a question of the entry point. No one is saying that analyzing complex arguments, understanding logic and being able to write well are not …
I will.. I am
Framing matters a lot. One frame shift we have often emphasize for students is that they aren't planning to do a project. They are doing a project. Right now. Too often, they are in school mode and …