The idea that the best way to learn a subject is to teach it may be the bane of undergraduates left to the mercies of graduate teaching assistants, but it's remarkably true. In medical school, the cliché "See one; do one; teach one" has become a dominant pedagogical principle. In fact, George Bernard Shaw's notorious anti-educational quip gets flipped — instead of "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach," it's "Those who teach effectively learn how to do."

Scott Gould went from trader to waiter—by choice.

Fun read: 9 Ways Marketing Weasels Will Try to Manipulate You

Until this year I was just a TA for various programming classes, which basically meant all I had to do was show up. This year, though, they didn’t have anyone to teach Intro to Java. I’d been working on Ruby on Rails workshops for women, and I saw a chance to extend the work to kids.

We've known for a long time that human children are the best learning machines in the universe. But it has always been like the mystery of the humming birds. We know that they fly, but we don't know how they can possibly do it. We could say that babies learn, but we didn't know how.

It's social media's David and Goliath story. And, it's all about ROI...

When organizations first consider the use of social media within their organization, the first thing they do is to make a series of decisions the way they’ve always made them: they do a bunch of market research to find out if and how their customers are using social media, assess current corporate goals, identify the “best practices” and “right tools” and finally lay out and execute a strategic plan. According to a fantastic 2007 Harvard Business Review cover article by Dave Snowden and Mary Boone, this decision-making process follows the process of “Sense > Analyze > Respond” which seems to make pretty good sense, right?...

...it seems to me, there’s at least two ways to share information about yourself (1 - tell someone, directly or 2 - let others learn about it on their own) and after watching a lot of sessions of HBO’s InTreatment series I formed the impression that therapists learn directly from the patient, listening carefully and applying what they already know according to the psychoanalytic method they are trained in. However, I wonder if value therapy could be amplified were Social Media and Social Networks added?

Based on my close observation of Twitter (I have written the first article about Twitter already in March 2007) I have identified five use cases how business can use Twitter for their business...

Twitter launched the first phase of its Verified Accounts program moments ago, meaning that celebrities, musicians, athletes, actors, public officials and

It used to be that only big companies needed to worry about their brand. Small- and medium-sized businesses were off the hook and free to humbly market their

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How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street.

... hopefully they may prove useful to others running in person or online training around the basics of making video for the web, or about using online video in activism and campaigning...

Whenever I talk about the new enterprise collaboration I always imagine an octopus. The big head of the octopus is where we gather.enterpriseocto.jpg Sometimes it’s a team, sometimes it’s the whole company, but all of us are in the head of the octopus. It’s where we live. It’s where we unify and freely interact. What’s great about being in the head, is you get to leave all your stuff behind and just get to the point.

We are used to thinking of humans as occupying the sole pinnacle of evolutionary intelligence. That's where we're wrong

"I used to wonder why Uncle Joe gathered so much stuff. Now my brain has become much like his garage..."

Are you focused on all the wrong things? Learn to deal with the most important aspects of your life before focusing on the minute details.

The professionalization of the field is turning students off

The magnitude of the current bust seems almost unfathomable—and it was unfathomable, to even the most sophisticated financial professionals, until the moment the bubble popped. How could this happen? And what's to stop it from happening again? A former Wall Street insider explains how the financial industry got it so badly wrong, why it always will—and why all of us are to blame.

This is the site of Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, who is an internist and social scientist who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. He is a Professor at Harvard and an Attending Physician at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Here you will find information related to his work on health and social networks, the health benefits of marriage and the consequences of spousal illness and widowhood, the effects of neighborhoods on people's health, the biodemographic determinants of longevity, and the genetic bases for human behaviors.

Teachers hate her. Principals are scared of her. How Michelle Rhee became the most revolutionary — and polarizing — force in American education

For nearly all of history the success of a society was proportionate to its ability to assemble large and disciplined organizations. Those who bet on economies of scale generally won, which meant the largest organizations were the most successful ones...

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WSJ columnist Jason Zweig on how he learned to live well within his means.

This paper studies perquisites of major company CEOs, focusing on personal use of company planes. For firms that have disclosed this managerial benefit, average shareholder returns under-perform market benchmarks by more than 4 percent annually, a severe gap far exceeding the costs of resources consumed. Around the date of the initial disclosure, firms' stock prices drop by an average of 1.1 percent. Regression analysis finds no significant associations between CEOs' perquisites and their compensation or percentage ownership, but variables related to personal CEO characteristics, especially long-distance golf club memberships, have significant explanatory power for personal aircraft use...

I've been called an expert. An expert blogger, an expert "social media" person—whatever that is. An expert in user/consumer/customer experience or "Web 2.0". If the "expert" label gets thrown my way, I don't give it much thought. It's just a...

David Spark recounts 12 great tales of social network defriending on sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

"...But anyway, back to Austin, the Harvard professor. His point is that incentive plans based on measuring performance always backfire. Not sometimes. Always. What you measure is inevitably a proxy for the outcome you want, and even though you may think that all you have to do is tweak the incentives to boost sales, you can't. It's not going to work. Because people have brains and are endlessly creative when it comes to improving their personal well-being at everyone else's expense...."

You are a bell curve. A standard distribution. At one end of the curve, you have your talents. You’re naturally and uniquely good at them, but you’re not quite sure why. At the other end of the curve, you have your natural deficiencies and, while I am an optimist and I do believe you can learn your way through just about anything, you’re genetically predisposed to be pretty bad at these things.

EventVue, a service offering online social networking for events, has recently beefed up its offerings.

"Here’s the second of my series of posts on my top twelve startup tips from TechStars this summer. It’s about finding and engaging great mentors..."

“There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.” - Benjamin Franklin

Marissa Mayer - VP, Search Products and User Experience, Google

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