If your last educational experience was more than three years ago, you are quickly becoming irrelevant.

What are you doing to become 1% better tomorrow than you were today?

You are either moving forward or becoming obsolete. Homeostasis is an illusion.

#futureproof #education #selfimprovement

There is no feeling more powerful, no force more empowering, and no factor more defining than human connection.

#empathy #humanity #netherlands

Genetic testing firm, #23andMe, has filed for bankruptcy. If you have used this company and submitted your DNA, it will be sold to the highest bidder.

I advise people to delete their #DNA data as soon as possible. You have the right to direct the company to delete all personal and #genetic data.

Starting in the 2025-26 academic year, Harvard College will be free for students whose family income is $100,000 and below.

As an educator, I hope to see more institutions (not just the immensely wealthy ones) offer low-cost or no-cost educational opportunities.

#highered #harvard #education

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

A rare planetary alignment of planets is visible to the naked eye beginning Saturday, January 25th, and lasting through February. Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will appear together in a row.

#eduSky #education #space

Want to start your journey as a rocket scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)- ranked the #1 university in the world?

Your first step is taking the Engineering the Space Shuttle course - now completely free of charge.

#eduSky #education #space

Three courses that help you better navigate the turbulent sea of disinformation, fake news, and propaganda:

#EduSky #education

We make it through life the best way we can, each according to our gifts. The race is never fair, the path never smooth, and the finish line uncertain.

Empathy, kindness, and being present in the lives of those we love make the journey worthwhile.

#motivation, #inspiration, #dailyinspiration

I am grateful for firefighters en route from Canada and Mexico to assist local agencies in battling the #PacificPalisades 🔥 (19% contained) and the #Eaton 🔥 (55% contained). Also grateful for crews assisting from Texas, Utah, Oregon, Georgia, and Arizona contributing manpower and equipment.

If you love #reading but lack space to store physical books or prefer the convenience of digital versions, Open Library (openlibrary.org) is for you.

Open Library provides online digital copies in multiple formats, created from images of numerous public-domain, out-of-print, and in-print books.

When I agreed to lead a #projectmanagement boot camp in beautiful, historic #SanFrancisco, I committed to walking daily to experience the city from the ground level.

Even with a gradient of 25%, the streets were a lollapalooza of excellent restaurants, historic businesses, and curious oddities.

We attract not what we want but who we are. If we keep attracting the same type of person, we only have ourselves to blame.

The Fall quarter ends today at the University of California, Riverside, marking my 20th year as an educator at this impactful institution.

UC Riverside has empowered me to teach over 20,000 project managers from over 10,000 companies and 64 countries and I will be forever grateful.