Tag: University of Washington

  • My story solution to fend off a poorer, meaner, hotter world

    Against our better judgment, we seem to be making our world poorer, meaner and hotter. I intend the opposite for my children and for my students. And I will use the two strategies in which I have most invested my entire professional life — content and connectivity — to do something about it.

  • Write Your (own) Headline

    As I now support my students in finding their own direction, I always exhort them to title their resumes and their online profiles appropriately. How we write our headlines, and what they say, matter enormously to others. More essentially, how we own them serve as a real-time mission statement to ourselves as we continue to…

  • “Tell the story you want to tell”: my 2-minute graduation speech

    I’m going to begin and end my very brief remarks at today’s graduation with two quotes: First from a technology blog earlier this year: “Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world’s…

  • Here’s the advice I gave to over 1,000 millennials at TEDx Oregon State (update: now with video)

    Hanson Hosein’s slides from his TEDx Oregon State University talk given on February 12 2015. He shares five lessons on why we all need to practice a form of professional self-destruction to sustain success in this disruptive age. He’ll also explain when to know it’s time to move on to the next big thing. Hanson…