![]() ![]() Īlthough I received most of my education earning an advanced degree from The School of Hard Knocks, I also received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. ![]() ![]() Some of my past investments include Eventbrite (NYSE: EB), Kahoot! ( KAHOOT-ME.OL), Anchor.fm (acquired by Spotify), Canva, Refresh.io (acquired by LinkedIn), Product Hunt (acquired by Angelist), Homelight, Marco Polo, Byte Foods, FocusMate, Dynamicare, Wise App, and Sunnyside. Previously, I taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School, and I’ve sold two technology companies since 2003.įor most of my career, I’ve worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where I learned and applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users. I write to help companies create behaviors that benefit their users while educating people on how to build healthful habits in their own lives.Īs an active investor, I put my money where my mouth is by backing habit-forming products I believe improve lives. I’m the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. I call it “behavioral design.” The topic encompasses user experience, behavioral economics, and a dash of neuroscience. Learn how to manage external triggers - email, meetings, social media apps, etc. Learn how to plan out your time, you cant call something a distraction if you dont know what its distracting you from. Learn how to manage the internal triggers that cause you to become distracted. This blog is about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. There are four steps in Nirs indistractable model: 1. ![]()
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![]() The Center considers PACA appointees to be “Ambassadors for the Arts.” Acting as a national network for the Center, the PACA helps to broaden the Center’s influence and extend its vision across the country. Members of the Committee are civic and cultural leaders who are selected by the President of the United States to serve as representatives in their own communities for the Kennedy Center. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Cultural Center. WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden announces his intent to appoint the following individuals to serve as members on the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts:Įstablished in 1958 by President Eisenhower, the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts (PACA) has played a valuable role in sustaining the John F. ![]() Get Involved Show submenu for “Get Involved””.The White House Show submenu for “The White House””.Office of the United States Trade Representative. ![]() Office of Science and Technology Policy.Executive Offices Show submenu for “Executive Offices””.Administration Show submenu for “Administration””. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each leap brings Marguerite closer to saving Paul-but her journey reveals dark truths that lead her to doubt the one constant she's found between the worlds: their love for each other. Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray - Audiobook Scribd Enjoy millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more, with a free trial Only 11.99/month after trial. Their mission takes them to the most dangerous universes yet: a war-torn San Francisco, the criminal underworld of New York City, and a glittering Paris where another Marguerite hides a shocking secret. The two forge a plan to save Paul and the Firebird, but succeeding means outsmarting a genius and risking not only their lives but also the lives of their counterparts in every other dimension. Unwilling to sacrifice her family, Marguerite enlists the brilliant Theo to help. If she doesn't sabotage her parents in multiple universes, Paul will be lost forever. ![]() But the price of his safe return is steep. ![]() When Paul's soul is splintered into four pieces-pieces that are trapped within Pauls in other dimensions-Marguerite will do anything, and travel anywhere, to save him. But she has also caught the attention of enemies willing to kidnap, blackmail, and even kill to use the Firebird for themselves. Marguerite Caine has done the impossible, traveling to alternate dimensions with the Firebird-the brilliant invention of her parents, her boyfriend, Paul, and their friend Theo. ![]() ![]() There is no rest for the ears of maidens in Goblin Market. This expropriation and the tension it causes mimics the treatment of female embodiment in the Victorian imagination at large, in which feminine symbols are forced into instability and cause chaos for those ensnared-particularly women.ĭante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith (1866-68, altered 1872-73). However, when operating symbolically in a male-generated signifying system, her assertive acts are expropriated in the interest of male power and control. ![]() Many readings of Goblin Market focus on Laura as a guilty victim of her own willingness to be seduced, but Laura’s actions may also represent self-assertion of her own embodiment. The fruit itself is bought with a snip from the very body upon which it wreaks havoc. Her hair grays, her eyes sink, the color fades from her mouth, and Lizzie is left to tend to the domestic and agricultural tasks alone. When Laura snips a curl from the “gold upon her head” (123) in exchange for the fruits sold by the eponymous goblins, we see this doubling cease. This twindom, however, is dependent on their health. ![]() “Golden head by golden head” is how they rest together, “Like two wands of ivory / Tipp’d with gold for awful kings” (189-190). A pair of sisters in Christina Rossetti’s 1862 poem Goblin Market, the two girls presumably live alone on a homestead and are depicted as near-identical and of indeterminate age. The story of Laura and Lizzie begins with a lock of hair. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope.įorced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over. ![]() ![]() In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree Summary: ![]() ![]() ![]() Now that "Attached" has been reintroduced into mainstream popularity, Levine says he would've written more about how others can understand avoidants, who are overwhelmed and shy away when they reach their threshold of emotional intimacy. Photographer Sarah Bahbah created a viral visual series inspired by what she learned from "Attached." There's a seemingly never-ending stream of content geared towards explaining how each style may manifest and why they happen in the first place. In the years since it was published, "Attached" and attachment theory has become the subject of many videos and posts on Instagram and TikTok. ![]() In the book, Levine and Heller outline this theory and the three main attachment styles: anxious, avoidant, and secure. " Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment, and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love," by Levine and co-author psychologist Rachel Heller, was published in December 2010 after Levine saw a research study that linked adults' romantic relationship behaviors to their behaviors as children interacting with their parents. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this revelatory cri de coeur, McKibben digs deep into our history (and his own well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, on the rise of the religious right, and on our environmental crisis to explain how we got to this point. And with the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth.īut fifty years later, he finds himself in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak racial and economic inequality, on a planet whose future is in peril.Īnd he is curious: What the hell happened? As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing-knowing-that the United States was the greatest country on earth. ![]() “I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Title: A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic #1)įind it on the web: Buy from Amazon // Goodreads Date Completed: March 24, 2017 Reviews for each book/the series are a whole are generally spoiler-free for any major occurrences or twists but may contain info about plot points so I can properly discuss the plot. It was funny though - I actually preferred the 1st books narrator on a lot of things so that was a surprise! I think he just got those voices all set up in my head and then I couldn’t shake them.Īnyway… I binge read all three books on audio and decided to review them all together instead of one-by-one! I started A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC on audio because I really wanted to listen to Michael Kramer narrate the 2nd and 3rd books (along with Kate Reading) because he’s one of my all-time favorite narrators. I had some personal reasons involved, some worries that it might be too much like NEVERWHERE, and I actually wanted to let some of the craze die down because hype really kills a book for me and I didn’t want to be caught up in it. I had put off reading A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC for a while now, for a couple of different reasons. ![]() ![]() – New subscriptions and renewals placed in Feb will ship in first week of Mar.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Our Jan-Feb featured authors are New subscriptions and renewals placed in Jan will ship on mid Feb.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ![]() Set in a lush world inspired by beloved fairytales, The Bone Spindle is a fast-paced young adult fantasy full of adventure, romance, found family, and snark. ![]() But nothing scares Fi more than the possibility of falling in love with Briar Rose. Now she’s stuck with the spirit of Briar Rose until she and Shane can break the century-old curse on his kingdom.ĭark magic, Witch Hunters, and bad exes all stand in her way–not to mention a mysterious witch who might wind up stealing Shane’s heart, along with whatever else she’s after. ![]() Shane is a tough-as-dirt girl warrior from the north who likes cracking skulls, pretty girls, and doing things her own way.īriar Rose is a prince under a sleeping curse, who’s been waiting a hundred years for the kiss that will wake him.Ĭursed princes are nothing but ancient history to Fi–until she pricks her finger on a bone spindle while exploring a long-lost ruin. Will be updated as more themes are announced!įi is a bookish treasure hunter with a knack for ruins and riddles, who definitely doesn’t believe in true love. ![]() ![]() ![]() Such themes find voice in Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War, the most recent book from the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. How could my work not think about those themes?” “And I grew up in a military town that was part of that, that was fundamental to the expansion of U.S. ![]() “I was born in 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, and I think that I look back on those 50 or so years and it looks like permanent, endless warfare,” Brown told Harvard Magazine. He is the son of Professor Willie Brown, a biology professor and author at the University of California, San Diego, and Manuelita Brown, a mathematics teacher who now works as a sculptor. Scholar Vincent Brown traces a lifelong interest in warfare to growing up in a family steeped in military service and to his childhood in San Diego, “one of the largest military garrisons in the history of the world, and one of the most potent,” as he told Harvard Magazine. ![]() |