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Category Archives: Books & Ideas
Quiet: The Power of Introverts [brief #book post]
Are you an introvert, or know someone well who is? Surely you do, as estimates are that between one-third and one-half of us are introverts. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain is … Continue reading
Wisdom and Beauty from a Young Violinist
I have to confess, my first instinct was to switch over to sports radio when I heard the next On Point Radio hour segment was focusing on a violinist I’d never heard of. Granted, I can’t name too many violinists. I appreciate … Continue reading
Quick #Book Review: How Children Succeed
What factors are most important for a child’s success? Certainly a question all of us parents think about a lot, not to mention educators and policy makers. After hearing Paul Tough talk about his new book on NPR, How Children … Continue reading
My Reading Year: Looking for more in 2013!
Around this time last year, I managed to put together a number of posts reflecting on the past year, including one on my top reads of 2011. Although I read a modest number of books that year, I was able … Continue reading
Getting a Boost from Becky’s Twitter Tips
I’ve been tweeting for over three years now, and have sent well over 20,000 tweets from my various accounts. Clearly I like Twitter and have placed a priority on it. When I saw that Becky Robinson had published an ebook … Continue reading
We Ourselves Must Be the Change…
“We ourselves must be the change we want to see in the world.” I’m a big Gandhi fan (is anyone not?), and this is one of my favorite quotes, so I’m glad to see it cited a lot on and offline … Continue reading
Digital Fluency: Building Success in the Digital Age [review]
With just a little time on Twitter or searching online, you can quickly get tips and techniques for social media success. However, much of the writing on the subject does not provide us with the broader framework needed to effectively … Continue reading
Thoughts from My September 11th Walk
I shouldn’t be writing this. I’ve got a proposal to write. But I had to pause this morning and consider what happened eleven years ago today, on a September morning that had a similar blue sky. I suspect this brief … Continue reading
Brief Book Review: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, has written another lively book that sheds new perspectives on an important topic. Outliers: The Story of Success focuses on the factors that lead to success for people, … Continue reading
Freedom
I originally wrote this on my Social Capital Inc. blog during the height of the 2011 protests in Egypt. Reading Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was interesting in this context. Re-publishing here as the theme seemed fitting for the Fourth of July. Quick–one … Continue reading