Official Transitioner

So over the past… four? five? days I’ve become a near-zombie. Why? All because of this show that one Alyshia Olsen introduced me to: It’s shockingly addictive. I hadn’t seen it before, but I’ve now completed the entire first season. It points out a lot of how selfish kids can be, and it’s funny to [...]

End of summer. Perfect time to enjoy the beach, final walks along the Charles, and… decaffeinate? After getting accustomed to four cups of coffee all day from the lovely Microsoft Starbucks coffee machine, I decided it was time to kick the habit before class started again. On the unfortunate side it makes me feel less [...]

So another interesting web project that has been going on lately is trackyourhappiness.org.  I finished up my first cycle (50 check ins) today, and here’s what I found: This has actually always been true- others talk about hating Monday. Crazy people might hate Friday. But no- I hate Wednesday. I’m always really excited to start [...]

I took some very important points from this book. Above all: We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. To me seems to say the beauty in life is in life itself, and not in everything else. I don’t agree, but I really [...]

This week everyone’s been talking about Personas Web out of MIT: Do yours! Mine is kinda cute: I like how heavily bent it is on education and reading it is. It seems pretty accurate, but mostly because there’s only one Ellen Chisa.

As you may have seen in my Twitter stream earlier today, today was the conclusion of my application process to the HBS2+2 Program.  Very little is actually recorded about this program, as the first cohort has yet to start at HBS!  A good introduction to what the program was last year has been written by [...]

Positive Organizational Scholarship So you might be wondering why you haven’t heard from me lately. The bulk of my time in the last week has been going into finalizing some research I’ve been working on in the field of “Positive Organizational Behavior.” So what’s POB? Think about it like this: Doctors spend most of their [...]

I think that the key thing in this new Google Labs addition is that I want to be able to see the photo. I want to leave my time unscheduled so I’ll be able to see it. Subtly sending me a message to make time and not over-schedule, Google? I’m going to miss my unscheduled [...]

Lately everyone seems to be focused on working together. Not just collaboration, but the notion of working in a place with other people so you’re capable of bouncing ideas off of them- co-working. I’ve come to one conclusion about it. I can’t do it. I get distracted and I want to talk to people about [...]