Don’t you hate when you get sucked into the social news feed? It was an image that caught my eye on LinkedIn this past Friday afternoon. A picture of an entrepreneur who I haven’t met but I recognized. At first glance I thought it said “Hall of Fame”. On a…

In my continually growing sense of understanding, I believe [at my current knowledge level] that this the cycle for people like myself to hold myself accountable to when it comes to raising my voice: 1.) Listen to feedback, 2.) Iterate, self-educate, and grow 3.) Speak again. I removed a post…

I had one stack of rhyme notebooks and two problems: I couldn’t figure out where to share them, and I was afraid of what would happen if I did. A dingy closet-sized bedroom in Wicker Park served as my first humble abode in Chicago, circa 2013. Mattress on the ground…

One of my favorite teammates approached my desk, moving fast… “Mike! When I saw the article last night. I thought, well, I said, ‘Where’s Mike? What happened? I swear I was just talking to him earlier today!’” The indication: maybe Mike got fired. My wife received an especially thoughtful text…

“The day Kobe Bryant died.” That phrase still doesn’t make sense. Not to me or to you. He’s Kobe. He’s the poster(s) on the wall. The sticker on the Gameboy cartridge. A staple of this generation’s reality — whether or not you were a kid watching basketball growing up. If…

You can’t spend a decade building a curiosity focused ed-tech company without being wildly & continuously curious about understanding exactly how learning works. At Packback, we fuel our own curiosity on this subject matter via primary research studies, interviews with members of our 200,000+ professor & student partners, and of…

I started reading the letters of Martin Luther King Jr. in 2018 while Morgan and I were on our honeymoon. My intention was to learn more about the civil rights movement, and to study MLK as a leader by way of his writing. …