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Critical Thinking

Your High School Student Can’t Divide

April 5, 2012

The other morning a friend dropped me a New York Times article by Michael Ellsberg (author of The Education of Millionaires). It’s pretty typical for people to shoot me Ellsberg’s work, because, hey! I write a blog called Stay Out Of School, so I must be totally down with this drop-out-and-start-up thing. In this particular [...]

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The Apology Craze is Killing Our Kids

March 28, 2012

Let’s tie together some stuff in the news. I want to to share with you two snippets of articles I found this week while traveling. This one, from Ad Age, an interview with Vincent Kartheiser of Mad Men: Ad Age: Well, you’re not only loyal to Don in the role of Pete, but in real [...]

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I Voted. There, I Said It.

January 31, 2012

(Or, Don’t Hate Me Because I’m a Conservative) I voted in Palm Beach County today. For some of you, the needle may have already skidded across the metaphorical record. I’ve already seen the gears turning on the faces of my friends this week….. Voting… voting… there’s voting going on? OH! THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY! Then they [...]

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Critical Thinking 101: Understanding Mutual Exclusion

November 3, 2011

(…or, Why The Drive-Through Habit Portends Terrible Critical Thinking) Since I teach high school students all over the United States, it’s pretty noticeable when they’re uniformly unfamiliar with something. For almost ten years I’ve been explaining to students from Boca to Toronto to Palm Springs the same term. I mean, every time it comes up [...]

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The Evolution of Smarter Search: A Convo With Stefan Weitz

September 21, 2011

barn owl South Florida rodent control recipe fast sweet peas artichoke pasta best tires minivan city driving If you use the web with regularity, which you probably do, you’ve likely developed fluency in Ad Hoc Searchese, that loose, disjointed language we all use to tease out search results that suit our needs. Whether you’re searching [...]

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The Closer Look: Creativity Starts with Examination

July 13, 2011

Bad news/good news. You’re not necessarily being creative if You’re doing something with “flair.” You’re being unorthodox. You used glitter. You’re painting a painting. Meanwhile, you might be doing something extremely creative if Your solution is simple. You’ve only made a slight change. You’re repairing a fence. When we want to enhance our own creativity, [...]

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The Artist Interviews: Baratunde Thurston, Comedian and Writer

April 18, 2011

Baratunde Thurston is a comedian, author and vigilante pundit who successfully combines technology, politics and comedy. He co-founded the black political blog, Jack & Jill Politics in the summer of 2006, hosted Popular Science’s Future Of on Science Channel, and works as the Director of Digital at The Onion. Baratunde has contributed to Vanity Fair, The UK [...]

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Pursuing Credible Ideas: Think Critically

March 29, 2011

This past week I told my story about publishing my first book and contracting my second, talked a bit about self-publishing and the value of gatekeepers, and then looked at The Domino Project as a bit of a case study about gatekeeping. For as many people who responded enthusiastically, I also managed to tick a [...]

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Facebook: Social Proof of What?

February 24, 2011

This week I was invited to be part of Jason Keith’s amazing Social Fresh Tampa 2011 conference. I was particularly excited to check it out because of the full day of Facebook training presented in conjunction with some big players on the social media field—and I know virtually nothing about Facebook for business. HubSpot sponsored [...]

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The Artist Interviews: Rita J. King, Writer

October 21, 2010

Rita J. King

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