The Maker Effect
"The Maker Effect is the sum of the personal growth, professional success, community development, and continuous innovation that results when makers learn, educate, share, and create together. " The Maker Effect The Maker Effect Foundation,a Florida nonprofit headed...
Make Glorious Mistakes!
“Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before.” Neil Gaiman Brain Pickings, one of our favorite sites for inspiring thought and introspection, shared a look at philosopher Daniel Dennett, on the recent anniversary of his...
The FIRST Fountain of Youth & Promise
We are in St. Louis this week, immersed in the wildly costumed, metal mashing, techno rock drenched thrumming of the FIRST Championship, where over 12,000 youth from around the world have convened to compete in what is essentially the World Cup of geekiness - 120 lb...
The Power of Nice
A new book, Survival of the Nicest: How Altruism Made Us Human and Why it Pays to Get Along, by Stefan Klein, is revisiting the idea of "survival of the fittest," and just what that might really mean in terms of human social interaction. Reviewed in the wonderful...
Lives of Holy Curiosity
As with all great journeys, there are more questions now than answers, not the least of which is, where shall we go from here? As that remains to be answered, all we can do now is keep living life to its fullest. - Andrea Willingham, our daughter Life is a work in...