Why is it that we value work experience so much? Experience only matters if you do something with it. More important are creativity, ambition, eagerness, and desire. Your insistence on hiring only people with industry experience keeps you from finding fresh eyes, new ideas, and a desire to interrupt the

Twitter and Facebook selling validation through blue checkmarks. Social media has always been selling validation. But what are they verifying? That's what I want to know.

What would it look like if we made helping young people find the things that put them into a flow state a part of education? What would it look like for productivity? What would it look like for quality of work? What would it look like for earning potential? What

It's so easy to forget that people all behave based on fear, insecurity, circumstance, and history. All people have good and bad in them. Mostly, people have survival mechanisms that manifest in ways that often they don't even realize. There are people I love who have

If you want to be good at something, do it every day. Period.

It feels counterintuitive. Giving something away - love, power, expertise, support, help, things - without the expecting something in return. It feels like setting yourself up to be depleted. But, it all centers around trust. Have you ever trusted anyone who was just out to take from you? Marketers give