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Project Exponential
The Exponential Project was created by a Red Headed, Left Handed woman named Michelle. The purpose is to connect interesting individuals to create new opportunities. When you walked into the event you were given a goodie bag - full of pipe cleaners, crayons, stickers, a...
The Story of Your Business
On Friday Breaker was joined by Dr. Tom Guarriello, the Chief Idea Officer of True Talk Consulting, for a session on Storytelling. Humans crave narrative, its a core element of our culture; one which transcends culture, gender, and race. Tom describes stories as being the...
Deferring Your Student Loans
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity -Horace Mann If you've gone for an undergraduate or graduate degree in the past decade, or know someone who has, I'm sure you're well aware of the staggering cost of a degree. American student loan debt...
Brewster
Today marked the launch of a new firm backed by Union Square Ventures, Brewster. Brewster aims to make managing your contacts, across all of your social platforms, an easier and more enjoyable experience. I downloaded Brewster this morning, and connected it to my gmail,...
The Kindle Fire
For my birthday my parents got me a [amazon asin=B0051VVOB2&text=Kindle Fire&chan=default]. After a few days of use though, I opted to return it for a [amazon asin=B005890G8Y&text=Kindle Touch&chan=default]. The Fire is a good tablet, but its no competition for...
Does Fiction Drive Innovation?
I don't read enough fiction, and my guess is that most people don't either. Fiction enables people to empathize with others, embrace new ideas, and envision the future. NASA credits science fiction as being the foundation for many of humanity's biggest technological advances...
MTV Scratch
For the fifth week of the Breaker Project we were hosted by MTV Scratch for an 'ideating' session. According to their website, "Scratch is a SWAT team that channels the reach, connection and creative force of Viacom in new ways to drive culture and commerce. Through consumer...
Fostering Innovation
I recently came across a great report by the Economist Intelligence Unit - Fostering innovation-led clusters: A review of leading global practices. This report focuses on what government can do to drive innovation within their economy, and how best they can work with the...
Who needs critical thinking?
I was recently forwarded the 2012 Texas Republican Platform from a former Professor of mine at Fordham, and I was a little taken aback by what they were advocating for education: Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)...