Genius Farm

Solving big problems requires constant innovation. While most people equate innovation with creativity, innovation is not the same thing as creativity.
https://startuptown.wordpress.com/2017/05/22/solving-big-problems-innovation-is-not-creativity/

Solving Big Problems: Innovation is Not Creativity What Happened to the Future? is the title of the manifesto of the Founders Fund. The subtitle is “We Wanted Flying Cars, Instead We Got 140 Characters.” Jason Pontin in the MIT Technology Review wr…

Psychologists are finding evidence that short, simple interventions can make a surprisingly large difference in closing the “achievement gap."
https://startuptown.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/want-your-children-to-succeed-3/

Want Your Children to Succeed? Teach Them Chess & Computer Programming! According to studies: Chess boosts brain power in kids. Chess improves IQ. Chess enhances arithmetical skills. Chess hones verbal skills. Chess sharpens…

American democracy is adrift. Our democracy is not “scaling” the way that it might. Our society has changed, our governing structures have failed to keep pace.

https://startuptown.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/seven-magazine-and-i-camp-tinkering-for-civic-engagement/

Seven Magazine and I-CAMP, Tinkering for Civic Engagement From a TechCrunch article, “Brigade Media Raises $9.3M From Sean Parker To Shake Up American Democracy:” The company thinks that American democracy is adrift. The main bent at play is a view that t...

School children are literally trained in bad habits and bad attitudes!

https://startuptown.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/makers-of-schooling/