Teens and Media

How switched on to teens and media are you? Nielsen has done a little study that is well worth a look. But what is rather interesting is that for all the hype that teens are in a very different media environment than adults today, they seem to be rather grounded according to this report. Here [...]

make it new

Teaching, especially at the undergraduate level, is a lot like living like Bill Murray in ‘Groundhog Day’. Sames courses different faces, and sometimes the same old faces! The challenge is to keep the content fresh. But sometimes it is less the content that needs to be fresh and more the environment that needs a shakeup. This [...]

Lessons from Tim O’Reilly

What will I do when I grow up? What career options are there? Is the work fun? These are all questions I get asked regularly by students from KG through university. We spend a lot of time trying to design a career and I am almost certain that that is our greatest downfall. How do [...]

Re-Apply?

I was reading my daily page of “U2 by U2″, a book about the band that very surprisingly is filled with anecdotes and ideas that can inform the way we think about education, business and even our personal interactions! Today’s gem in the rough was Bono talking about how in 2000 it felt to him [...]