by BM | May 29, 2017 | Graduation Speeches
Will Ferrell to the University of Southern California’s Class of 2017 We are SC We are [SC]. We are [SC]. We are [SC]. Thank you. Thank you. It is such an honor to deliver this year’s commencement address to the University of Southern California’s graduating...
by BM | May 15, 2017 | Education, Graduation Speeches
To Be Resilient, Don’t Be Too Virtuous I thought I was done with homework when I finished grad school. But I wanted to be prepared for my commencement speech. So I did what any self-respecting social scientist would do. I started reading studies of graduation...
by BM | May 15, 2017 | Education, Graduation Speeches
MP3 Audio https://www.eeducationgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Amazon-founder-and-CEO-Jeff-Bezos-delivers-graduation-speech-at-Princeton-University.mp3 As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fix windmills, vaccinate...
by BM | May 7, 2017 | Education
We ask ourselves what a laptop would do to a child. Why the government would spent billions of Kenyan shillings in buying laptops for standard one kids? How can we objectively answer these concerns? Are there experiments which can help us?Many people have ridiculed...
by BM | Apr 25, 2017 | Career
I got my first Job (my current job at the time of this post) through a speculative application. I searched for electrical consulting firms in Kenya, got their email addresses and then customized my speculative application to each of them. Within a week, I got a call...