Today I taught kindergarten

Today I taught 22 kindergartners about the thawing arctic. These children are mostly 6-years-old. Symbolically, the route that ArcticRow rowed was frozen until 6 years ago. A clear example of global warming. These kindergartners just completed a lesson on the Arctic. My companies’ non-profit arm, the VMware Foundation, provided lunch bags to demonstrate the lesson of reuse+recycle. When …

10 Favorite PC Programs

Everything – desktop search f.lux – dims screen hues at night Faststone – screen capture Webex – teleconferencing Dropbox – file sharing synced across your computers Ultramon – adds task bar to extended monitor Microsoft security essentials – free virus protection Evernote – note taking software for pc, web, and phone Chrome – browser that syncs passwords and bookmarks across your computers Picasa …

Tips For Applying To Wharton MBA

Here’s the advice I give when folks ask me for tips on applying to Wharton MBA. GMAT prep courses are expensive and worth the money (I did Princeton, it cost a boatload) Take lots of practice courses (I took over 20 practice exams and pretended like they were the real thing each time) Try to …

Results from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

Some of you might know that back 2004 I worked for a venture capital firm that made investments in satellite and advanced technologies. Working there, I definitely got the “solar system” bug. .. So check this out, the first images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory have been released. We’re talking pictures of “huge explosions and …