Seth Godin got to the heart of Caine’s Arcade- The first thing that made me smile was how willing Caine was to do his art regardless of how the world responded (it didn’t). Caine didn’t care. The goal wasn’t to be accepted, the goal was to do it right…”
Build Something Useful. RockHealth in Boston at Harvard Medical School
The last trip I took to San Francisco, I was pumped to fit in a day at RockHealth’s Health Innovation Summit for their CEO Day. I was only there for a few hours but spent the rest of my week enthusiastically telling anyone who would listen (and some who didn’t have a choice) about the …
Nonstop Inspired Learning. My SXSW Experience.
Welcome to my very belated SXSW recap. I flew to Austin to join a panel called How Not to Die: Using Technology in a Dictatorship with Mark Belinsky from Digital Democracy, Brian Conley from Small World News and Deanna Zandt, author of Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking. I spoke briefly …
An incredible moment in my family’s American life
Yesterday, my grandmother became an American citizen. My entire life I’ve been reminded what a wonderful, incredible privilege of birth I gained being the first in my family born in America. I heard the stories, watched my siblings struggle navigating the immigration maze and remember moments of my childhood playing tag inside the waiting rooms …
Quote and a Question: How Do You Thrive?
I was having a conversation tonight with a good friend about ambition and self-care. She quoted a Self article to me: “When I exercise, eat well and get enough rest, I thrive. Repeating those things every day is how I show myself love.” While I absolutely agree with that, I’m aware enough to know we …
Web of Change Reflections
Over on the Be Bold Blog, I have a write up on the Web of Change conference I attended at Hollyhock. At the risk of being redundant, it was a pretty magical experience, but you can go read all about it yourself. And enjoy this view we got on the way home…
Tell someone not to be afraid. And give them a hug.
“Don’t be afraid to fail, don’t be afraid to take risks, ask questions, ask stupid questions, don’t be afraid to trip, fall and don’t be afraid to get back up.” – Michelle Obama’s motivational remarks at Oxford University to North London schoolgirls from Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school. At the end of the hour-long visit, she …
This is it. Give your best work now.
I finished reading Hugh MacLeod’s book Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination over the weekend. It was a good read, especially for someone like myself: a determined creative who feels a little bit stuck and in need of some focus. I was hit over the head with the chapter “This Is …
On discipline, writing and compassion.
Today is my brother, Rashid’s birthday. Six years older than me, tall, fanatical about literature and hilarious I hold my brother responsible for shaping my life in three critical ways: On Discipline. I played a lot of sports growing up and one thing that I remember is that I was never very good at these …