Maybe the Japanese do it right too, but I haven’t been to Japan. We recently came back from a little vacation in Germany and Italy and the first thing that struck me was the many levels of beauty everywhere.People definitely pay close attention to detail and maybe its partly my Indian (British influenced) upbringing, but […]
I have developed a pretty thick skin (or so I like to think), but am still vulnerable when people appreciate our work 🙂We recently interviewed a parent who had participated in two of our Family Science Courses. Here are some excerpts from the interview. The family couldn’t attend the first session of our CardioVascular Mechanics […]
Our Urban School Needs Map project is humming along. The project is super cool with many far-reaching ramifications. The goal is to develop a visualization tool (with the help of a team of very kind Italian researchers from Density Design) that would help us determine which schools are the most needy in a particular area […]
I love beautiful things – paintings, photographs, flowers, mountains, melodies and writing. I try and share some of this appreciation along with the curiosity about how each of these is created. I have also realized (thanks to working with Ioana), that beauty is in the details, it is a way of life, an acquired perspective […]
While wandering in New Orleans (for the NSTA conference), I came across a lovely used bookstore (Crescent City Books). Since I am interested in developing a successful business model for Iridescent, I always ask people how they run their businesses and asked the cuddly, old gentlemen behind the counter whether business was booming. Surprisingly one […]
I just came back from the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) conference in New Orleans. It was not as intense as my last year’s experience at Boston, but fun all the same. I met one very interesting Canadian teacher who teaches college students in Qatar.She was saying that students there are all paid to go […]
I have been reading “Tribal Leadership” that talks about the five stages of workplace culture. This is from an interview with Dave Logan (one of the authors): At Stage One people believe “Life sucks” and they cluster together, expressing hostility, such as in a gang. At Stage Two people believe “My life” sucks. They feel […]
Ok! we are back in the big leagues again – 70 and more hours/week. Its mostly because I have started working on a big fat federal grant (due in less than 3 weeks) that will hopefully make Iridescent’s life happier.One interesting thing I have noticed is that when I have to work on a proposal, […]