Passion, learning, and a full life

Since the topics of following one’s passions and life-long learning have been topics I’ve written about recently, I couldn’t help but love Ben Dunlap’s TED talk from 2007. It tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian holocaust survivor who moved to segregated South Carolina and started up an integrated textile factory.

It’s 19 minutes [...]

People I’d love to job shadow

I really enjoy teaching, but there are a few people that’d be able to convince me to take a hiatus from my current career track if they offered me a position. Here are three of them:

Richard Preston

Richard Preston is perhaps best known for writing articles on scientists and science in New Yorker magazine. [...]