I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love with the reality of your own life.

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

When I discovered PopTech and other kind of intellectualish, online portals for curiosity. Very quickly, I just got so much more out of those than from so-called "Ivy League" education that I knew it was on me to keep myself stimulated, and to keep learning, more than anything. And, because I paid my way through college, I was working at Penn, two to four jobs at a time to pay for school.

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.

Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art.

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.