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Is Education Simply Broken?

Wednesday, 25 September 2013 by Paul O'Brien

“Remember everything we learned last class? Well that’s actually not true and we are going to learn something radically different and (slightly) more correct this class,” said every teach you ever had. I’ve been on a tirade about education lately. With 3 kids in the house, working their way through elementary school, we’re dealing with

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Why Do So Many People Want to be Entrepreneurs?

Friday, 23 August 2013 by Paul O'Brien

I like to think we’re hard wired to forge our own path and build things. Imagine for a moment, your life as a child, untainted by education and experience. You built with blocks, you played through your imagination, and drew pictures – You were an entrepreneur. Only as you got older did you, as does everyone,

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Changing Education

Tuesday, 23 October 2012 by Paul O'Brien

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of learning from Editor at Large ofThe Chronicle of Higher Education and Author of College (Un)Bound, Jeff Selingo. He has spent the past 15 years immersed in higher education reporting and has been a featured speaker before dozens of national higher-education groups and appears regularly on NPR, PBS, ABC,

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airbnb for Entrepreneurs

Tuesday, 18 September 2012 by Paul O'Brien

Without a doubt, one of the most exceptional new services brought to us by the interweb is airbnb. An incredibly obvious service (in hindsight); the website connects people with unique spaces that can serve as an accommodation, to travelers looking a distinct, personal, and comfortable experience. As they put it, “Airbnb connects people to unique

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The Dark Ages of Employment

Tuesday, 28 August 2012 by Paul O'Brien

I’ve recently had the pleasure of being a part of many conversations about (un)employment, millennials, outsourcing, coworking, generation x, baby boomers, education, entrepreneurship, health care, corporations, and government. Bear with me, there’s a common thread here and I think it’s one that results in a revolution. Why We Work Of late, a common discussion over

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A Prius in Austin, TX

Wednesday, 01 June 2011 by Paul O'Brien

Having been in Austin for about 6 months now, there’s one irrefutable fact that everyone in Austin acknowledges with a cock-eyed smile; Californians love Austin, perhaps too much. More than that, Steiner Ranch (the neighborhood in which we settled) seems to be the magnet for relocations from the Sunshine State. One of those transplants myself,

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