Author name: Dan Pink

Saul Pink accurately forecasts the ’08 headlines . . . way back in ’07.

From Iowa winner Mike Huckabee: “Education is only a true education if we’re developing both the left and right brain of the student . . . . Take a room of 5-year-olds and give them a piece of paper and crayon and every one of them draws a picture. When he’s 15 that kid won’t

In today’s New York Times, an unsigned editorial blesses the innovative Comic Book Project, a literacy program that “encourages children to plot, write and draw comic books, in many cases using themes from their own lives.” The one-two punch of intrinsic motivation and self-expression has proven to be a powerful learning strategy. What’s more, says

The Economist has a good piece on Evan Williams, the Blogger and Twitter founder whom the paper says “epitomises Silicon Valley’s right brain.” Williams makes a number of interesting observations, including that genuinely good ideas are stumbled upon rather than sought out. The story also mentions that Williams hated his time working at Google, which

In the spring of 2005, Apple CEO Steve Jobs delivered a commencement speech at Stanford that quickly became one of most emailed documents I’ve ever encountered. Now Stanford on iTunes has the live recording. Some of us listened to it here at the Pink House a couple of days ago — and, in this Pink’s

Time readers pose 10 questions to Richard Branson, including one whose answer is consistent with the dyslexia advantage. Skye O’Brien of Dartmouth, Mass. asks him: “Has your dyslexia hindered you in the business world?” To which Sir Richard responds: “Strangely, I think my dyslexia has helped. When I launch a new company, I need to

Death tourism: Terminally ill people traveling to places such as Switzerland, Belgium, and the Netherlands that permit assist suicide. (Source: WSJ‘s Informed Reader)

In AWNM I wrote about studies showing that self-made millionaires are much more likely to be dyslexic than the rest of the population. Now comes a fresh round of research, reported in the New York Times and pointed out to me by my pal Chris Nippert-Eng, revealing that a whopping 35% of American small business

Careful readers of AWNM know about that Rainbow Project, an alternative SAT, that is often a better predictor of college grades than the mainstream test. Part of the Rainbow Project involves giving test-takers blank New Yorker cartoons and asking them to write captions. It’s an interesting exercise in R-Directed thinking — which is one reason

Factoid: “Although English speakers outnumber Japanese speakers by more than 5-1, slightly more blog postings are written in Japanese than in English . . . [and] By some estimates, as much as 40 percent of Japanese blogging is done on mobile phones.” (From this excellent WaPo story on Japanese bloggers) Quote: “The way left-brain people