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 …
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What a nice donation experience
In August I donated to my local humane society (San Francisco Aid for Animals). I received two hand written thank you letters in response. A very nice gesture. Makes me want to donate again.
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 …
Summer
Happy Holidays from the Mueller’s
Great family pictures from Thanksgiving this year.
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 …
Interview Of Me By “Water Falling Upwards”
The blog Water Falling Upwards interviewed me. The interview is called Neal Mueller: On Tangible Goals & Personal Vision. Check it out.
Best Idea of 1H 2010 = adopting Tenzing
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 …
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Studies On Happiness
Good studies on happiness: Stumbling On Happiness, Book. Most important points of this book: Happiness is not as good as we imagine it, nor is unhappiness as bad as we imagine it. Neither lasts as long as we think they will We exaggerate the long- term emotional effects certain events will have on us. People …