What we learnt building and running a fellowship helping people build meta skills for navigating their careers 💼 and leveling up 📈 after getting initial traction in tech tl;dr: In Mar-Apr 2022, Karen and I collaborated…

A really great piece, as someone that transitioned into Product Management from being a Founder about a year and a half ago, loved the emphasis on - 🌱 growing your community (e.g., meet other PMs), - 🧠 getting smarter on PM (will look at the Udemy course; also read Inspired…

Here, I break down what makes On Deck such a powerful learning experience — On Deck (tagline: where top tech talent goes to explore what’s next) is a company that runs learning experiences as fellowships. It started off in 2015 focused on community building for and by founders in major tech hubs around the world and launched its first On Deck Fellowship (ODF) cohort…

What we can learn from a quote about bricklaying + frameworks from education and experience + expressing and evolving our purpose over time — One Job, Three Perspectives “I am laying bricks.” “I am finishing a wall.” “I am building a cathedral.” Read those statements again, and reflect for a moment: what’s the difference between them? It’s the same job, but what’s different is what the individual has chosen to focus on and how they have chosen to…

As pandemic pods spread, parents are scrambling to find solutions for their kids and ‘grieving the loss of normal school’ — Co-author: Zach Kagin | Originally drafted July 27 🔮 Predictions Two months ago, after producing my first 🌍🌏🌎 virtual education unconference, I drafted 10 Education Predictions For The Next 10 Years. I want to highlight the first three: Education gets the macro event needed to actually significantly shift its modus operandi toward being flexible and virtual. Shifting to virtual does…

When have I felt most aligned, energized and filled with purpose in my life? — If you’ve experienced the privilege and struggle of trying to figure out your purpose, your meaning, your why, then you know that this is both a surprisingly simple and devilishly difficult question to answer. One of the best ways to (re)discover or (re)define an answer, is to ask this question…

When profit and scale trump people and safety — What can go wrong when platforms don’t fully appreciate how bad actors can manipulate or leverage their technology for harm. And how ridesharing platforms have responsibility to build features to prioritize safety not just for passengers, but for drivers as well. EDIT 5 Aug 2020: Thanks 🙏🏼 to the 6…

What I learned gathering 30 people online 30 May 2020 for the world’s 1st virutal unconference during COVID to explore the transformational power of education — O n Saturday, 30 May 2020, I organized my first 🌍🌎🌏 global virtual education unconference. It exceeded my wildest expectations as 30 participants joined from Johannesburg, Mauritius, Accra, Nairobi, Mochudi (Botswana), Medellín, London, Hong Kong, New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston and DC. But don’t just take my word for…

With a particular focus on hubs in each region: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt — Articles I’ve published from the last couple months include: a vision for transformational learning, a letter to Marc Andreessen, a reflection on innovation in education and at Streetlight using an IDEO framework, a primer on CRISPR-Cas9 prime editing with broader commentary on ideation, innovation, iteration (complete with part 2 and…