I’d never heard of Jeremy Gleick until this weekend. On a snowy Saturday, the first snowy day of the year, Phineas and I were snuggled up in our apartment. He in his bed with his favorite squeaky toy and me on the couch with the New York Times. There was a special education section in [...]
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Leap: Leave Your Business Alone, or What I Learned from Jeremy Gleick
Posted in education, learning, school on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Beginning: Learning How to Breathe, Run Barefoot, and Ditch Conventional Wisdom
Posted in curiosity, education, running, safety, yoga on November 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last week I attend my first class at The Breathing Project with Leslie Kaminoff. I used his anatomy book as a part of my yoga teacher training, and since then have been curious about his renegade style and obsession with how we breathe. In traditional yoga classes, we learn the 3-part breath by filling up [...]
Beginning: The Opportunity of Us
Posted in discovery, education, learning, politics, tagged postaday2011 on October 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.” ~ Immanuel Kant A couple of years ago, I took Michael Sandel’s online class Justice. (See also wrote a book by the same name, and it takes the basic principles discussed in his class and applies them to today’s [...]
Beginning: Is It Time for Yoga University?
Posted in education, learning, teaching, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on September 28, 2011 | 6 Comments »
New York is blessed with a lot of wonderful yoga teacher training programs. It’s also home to some yoga teacher training programs that are put in place with the intention of helping studio owners pay the rent. The trouble is that it can be difficult to discern between these two groups. In the past, I’ve [...]
Beginning: Why A College Education Matters
Posted in education, tagged postaday2011 on May 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Last week every major news outlet in the U.S. ran a story, or several stories, about the just-released Pew Research Center study entitled “Is College Worth It?” The study found that “57% of Americans now believe the value of higher education is not worth the cost.” I first heard about this study in the elevator [...]
Beginning: Shifting Our National Priorities in Favor of Children
Posted in education, election, politics, tagged postaday2011 on April 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I saw a sign in a store that read, “I can’t wait for the day when we have an education budget that can’t be cut and have to hold a bake sale to fund our weapons program.” As the landscape of the 2012 Presidential Race starts to take shape, I’ve been thinking a lot about [...]
Beginning: Cathie Black, Donald Trump, and the Difficulty of Building Consensus
Posted in business, education, leadership, nonprofit, tagged postaday2011 on April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On the New York Times blog Room for Debate several experts batted around Cathie Black’s quick appointment and quick dismissal as the Chancellor of New York City public schools. Most of them recapped what I thought were less-than-insightful points-of-view. One response, by the Cato Institute’s Neal P. McCluskey, brought up a very intriguing idea that [...]
Beginning: How I Got My Financial Life on Track and Paid Off My Private Student Loans
Posted in determination, education, loans, money, tagged postaday2011 on February 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In May 2007, I graduated from Darden Business School and moved to New York City. I didn’t have a firm job offer and I had run out of money. In June, I got a full-time job offer and to tide myself over until I got my first paycheck in July I had to take a [...]
Further Thoughts on MLK Day
Posted in care, courage, dreams, education, inspiration, integrity, story, tagged postaday2011 on January 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This post is available as a podcast on Cinch and iTunes. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~ MLK via CharlesMBlow Charles M. Blow is The New York Times’s visual Op-Ed columnist. His column appears every Saturday. “Dr. King delivered the “I have a dream” speech at [...]
Step 350: It’s Not Knowing that Really Counts
Posted in career, decision-making, discovery, education, encouragement, work on December 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” ~ Sir William Haley, British newspaper editor and broadcasting administrator If Sir Haley were [...]
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