In addition to the writing I do on this blog, I write for various other publications. Here are some of my pieces from the past few years.
How The Most Viral Video In The History Of The Internet Gave Uganda A Voice - Fast Co. Exist, March 2012
What Jay-Z Can Teach Us About The Future Of Education - Fast Co. Exist, March 2012
The Decline and Rebirth of the Liberal Arts - Huffington Post, March 2012
From OWS to TED, Where Spontaneous Sentiment Meets Community Organizing - GOOD, March 2012
If Schools Kill Creativity, Can Toys Bring It Back To Life? - GOOD, February 2012
Five Ways To Decide What To Build - PandoDaily, February 2012
Stop Clubbing, Baby Seals: The Rise Of The Internet’s Self-Defense Militia - PandoDaily, February 2012
The Quiet Revolution in Social Impact - PandoDaily, February 2012
Here Comes The Fund, Do Do Do Do, The Mega Fund - PandoDaily, February 2012
Don’t Hide The Things You Suck At (So Far) - PandoDaily, January 2012
2012 Is The Year When Software Eats (The Rest Of) The World - PandoDaily, January 2012
How Stop SOPA Could Do What Occupy Wall Street Never Could - PandoDaily, January 2012
The Rise And Fall Of Poverty Porn - Fast Co. Exist, January 2012
Your Next Investor Is Not The Girl Of Your Dreams - Assetmap blog, August 2011
Four Things All Event Planners Could Learn From TED - Inc Tech, July 2011
Why One Entrepreneur’s Answer to Extremism Is Social Games - Inc Tech, July 2011
The Next Generation Of Social Networking Is All About The Aspiration Graph - Inc Tech, July 2011
Why The Internet Debate Could Restart The Culture War - Inc Tech, July 2011
Social Entrepreneurships’ Middle Ages - Inc Tech, July 2011
The Three Startups You Must Know From Big Omaha - Inc Tech, May 2011
Why Twilight Fan Fiction Is An Asset To The World - Inc Tech, May 2011
The Most Easily Forgotten Networking Truth: To Get What You Need, You Have To Ask - Assetmap Blog, April 2011
Big Ideas: Weighing In on the New Middle East - GOOD, March 2011
Big Ideas: The Boundary-Pushing Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow - GOOD, March 2011
Big Ideas: Letting Students Drive Their Education - GOOD, March 2011
Big Ideas: Keeping the Internet Safe for Activists - GOOD, March 2011
Big Ideas: A Construction Set for Civilization - GOOD, March 2011
10 Takeaways from TED 2011 - Inc., March 2011
5 Startups Bubbling Up at TED - Inc., March 2011
Why TED and Burning Man Are More Similar Than You Think - Inc., March 2011
How the TED Fellows Program Develops Leaders - Inc., March 2011
Collaborative Creation and Crowdsourcing in the Music Industry - Inc., March 2011
Beyond Groups: Why Curated Membership Communities Are Today’s Most Important Networks - Assetmap blog, February 2011
The Essence of Great Introductions Is Not Who You Know But Who You Are - Assetmap blog, February 2011
Why Social Capital Is The Coming Decade’s Most Important Buzzword - Assetmap blog, February 2011
TEDBooks and the Future of Education - Assetmap blog, January 2011
The Only Thing You Need To Do To Be Great At Networking - Assetmap blog, January 2011
Why Crowdsourcing Should Really Be Called Group Powering (And How Group Powering Is Remaking Everything) - Assetmap blog, January 2011
For Gen Y, There Are No Weak Ties, Only Ties That Aren’t Strong Yet - Assetmap blog, January 2011
Let’s End The Myth That Ideas Are Worthless - Assetmap blog, January 2011
Zuckerberg: Person of the Year and First CEO of our Generation - Assetmap blog, December 2010
5 Thoughts on Entrepreneurship Inspired by Kanye West’s ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ - Assetmap blog, November 2010
Why the Interest Graph Will Reshape Social Networks (and the Next Generation of Internet Business) - Assetmap blog, November 2010
The Revolution in Cool: Why Doing Real Shit is the Next Big Thing - Assetmap blog, November 2010
The 6 Levels of Collaboration - Assetmap blog, October 2010
Secrets of Networking: Be Interested In People - Assetmap blog, October 2010
A New Story About Our Generation - Change.org, April 2009
Collected Writings on Change.org - Between October 2008 and November 2010, I wrote more than 1000 blog posts about social entrepreneurship and innovation on Change.org
Selected Essays from College - 20 essays from a few pages to a few hundred pages from college, on topics ranging from Middle East politics to development in Africa to American political identity
