“The melancholy over Steve Jobs’s passing is about the loss of someone who personified so many of the leadership traits we know are missing from our national politics…He did not read the polls but changed the polls by giving people what he was certain they wanted and needed before they knew it; he was someone [...]
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Beginning: The Secret to Everyone’s Success, a la Thomas Friedman and Steve Jobs
Posted in economy, politics, Steve Jobs, success, Thomas Friedman, tagged postaday2011 on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Beginning: Our Role in the Economic Recovery
Posted in choices, economy, government, politics, President, tagged postaday2011 on August 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In DC, I was struck by how much wider the street blocks are in comparison to NYC. In New York, we always feel like we’re moving quickly because it’s easy to see progress in our movements. DC has more space and so it feels like a slow march to our destination. As we have watched [...]
Beginning: My Favorite Economic Principle
Posted in economy, school, wellness, tagged postaday2011 on August 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“We are spurred by our personal goals tempered by reality.” ~ Bill Flax You might be surprised to learn that my primary major in college was economics. I bounced around from the School of Engineering to several life science majors to international relations and then ended up loving economics. 7 years after undergard, I went [...]
Step 154: Getting Serious About Innovating Your Career
Posted in career, economy, innovation on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“If you’re serious about innovation, you have to get serious … and systematic … about forgetting. PERIOD.” ~ Tom Peters Tom Peters projects the exact message I need to hear, exactly when I need to hear it. I subscribe to his daily emails and each one gives me a little jolt. Sometimes he times them [...]
Step 6: The Roots of Ideas
Posted in books, economy, education, yoga on January 6, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I double majored in Economics and American History and got a minor in Psychology at Penn because I was interested in the energy of money, its influence on major world events, and its effect on the human psyche. Through the lens of History and Psychology, I found that Economics was much more a moral discipline [...]
My Year of Hopefulness – M.S. 223 One Year Later
Posted in business, charity, economy, education, Junior Achievement, philanthropy on December 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“A writer – someone who is enormously taken by things anyone else would walk by.” ~ a quote found in the hallways on M.S. 223 Today I went to M.S. 223 in the South Bronx with Junior Achievement. It has been a year almost to the day that I first visited that school. One year [...]
The Journal of Cultural Conversation – Keep It Positive
Posted in economy, money, opportunity, The Journal of Cultural Conversation on November 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Latest post on The Journal of Cultural Conversation: Keeping it Positive and what I do to maintain optimism in the current economy. It’s a bit more business-y than our signature cultural posts. One of my economics professors at Darden always opened his classes by saying economics is the most relevant of all subjects to study [...]
My Year of Hopefulness – A Room (or Two) of My Own, Eventually
Posted in economy, finance, home, housing, New York City, real estate on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight I went to a session offered by Mindy Diane Feldman, a Penn alum and SVP at Halstead Realty, on the ins and outs of buying an apartment in Manhattan. It is a complicated, cumbersome process and the current economic downtown has heightened the complexity considerably. The session lasted almost 3 hours and we just [...]
My Year of Hopefulness – Let’s Get a Little Crazy
Posted in business, Business Week, economy, history, hope on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“We would not be where we are if our ancestors had not been kind of crazy.” ~ Edward Tenner, historian of technology and culture I’m part way through the cover story for this week’s issue of Business Week, Case for Optimism. One of the people who worked on the story asked me and 12 other [...]
My Year of Hopefulness – While You Were Out
Posted in change, economy, home, moving, New York City, recession on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today I went to pick up all of the keys for my new apartment. At 9am tomorrow, I’ll be happily skipping around my new, renovated, larger, cheaper apartment a mere four blocks from my old one – a very positive, unintended consequence of the recession. I was too excited sleep this morning, so I was [...]
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