I am broken and heartbroken today. This is sometimes my answer when people ask me how I am, which as you can imagine gives them pause. I find myself explaining what I mean quite often. And so I thought I’d do it here as well.
Ze Frank has always been one of my favorite Internet folks. And this piece is particularly poignant because every person has — at some point — faced the crushing weight of starting over.
September 11, 2001: The unimaginable happened. But I choose to remember that in that awfulness, we revealed ourselves to be capable of so much love.
Grades don’t matter. This is what I tell my students ever week throughout the school year. Education is about the process, I tell them as they roll their eyes, not the product. I implore them to focus on squeezing out every bit of knowledge from their assignments. I want them to attack uncertainty without fear […]
In keeping with the week’s theme, Apple CEO Steve Jobs tells Stanford graduates three stories from his life.
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked Congress to commit several billion dollars in funds so that America could lead the rest of the world to the moon. On September 12, 1962, Kennedy visited Rice University, in Houston, to outline the effort. The video is an art project celebrating the achievement of the […]