1. Scrap the permission-based mindset. Waiting for permission is the fastest way to surrender your personal freedom and autonomy. You don’t need someone to say something is okay. If you know it’s right, based on examination and reflection, then go and do it. You don’t need someone’s accreditation to launch into the professional world. Build…
“[Claude Shannon is] someone who is absolutely essential in everything we take for granted in 20th century to 21st century tech – from the internet to mobile computing to artificial intelligence, he was there from the beginning. None of that would have been possible without Claude Elwood Shannon.” Every week at Praxis, participants and…
The Praxis team is excited to announce that by popular request, and in the interest of always providing the best, most convenient payment options available, we can now support tuition payments in Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Participants of the full program and the internship program can now pay their tuition in full or on a monthly…
To short a stock is to sell it before you own it. You sell it today and agree to deliver in the future because you believe the cost will go down and you will be able to buy it at a cheaper price. When you put off tasks to the future, you are doing the…
Statistics can be very illuminating in aggregate, but individuals are not aggregates. Statistics tell a story about what happened in the past for a certain group of people. But, whether it is average college graduate salaries or income levels for types of professions, people mistake past statistics for guarantees about the future. They forget that…
When something goes wrong in a customer service situation, some people will seize the opportunity to berate their server or make an employee feel bad. They use the moment to grab a tiny amount of power. But by using this opportunity to feel important, they give up what is best for them in the long…
“After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out… So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the…
“I never went to fashion school. I didn’t know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn’t know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.” Ralph Lauren is an entrepreneur and clothing designer, and one of the best. His clothes are classically elegant, transcending momentary fashion trends…
There aren’t too many hours spent in class that I wouldn’t take back if I could. But like most people, I have one or two classroom experiences that I look back on fondly. Business class was one of those, precisely because it wasn’t a class. Our teacher was a local businessman. He wasn’t a teacher,…
We have made some exciting changes to the Praxis Education Experience and it’s been even more exciting to see those changes come to fruition since implementing them over the past two months and new participants excelling in the program. We have placed a stronger emphasis on building projects (at work and on your own), weekly…
Today’s post was written by current Praxis participant Josh Jaye. Learn more about participants like Josh here. “Americans fear technology in the near future because they see it as a replay of the globalization of the near past. But the situations are very different: people compete for jobs and for resources; computers compete for neither.”…
New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s proposal to control Uber’s growth this summer was met with fierce opposition from all angles. Tweets, Facebook posts, emails, and even a call to action from Ashton Kutcher (early Uber investor) poured in against DeBlasio. Uber challenged the mayor to a public debate. Uber even implemented a slight iteration…
One of the commonly cited problems with a great deal of self-help philosophy is the overemphasis on positive thinking, affirmations, visualization techniques, and other motivational tools that produce short-term inspiration but that often fail to help people create lasting changes. On a recent episode of the Accidental Creative podcast, Todd Henry addresses this issue in…
Our founder and CEO Isaac Morehouse joined Albert Lu on The Economy Podcast last week for a discussion of the limits of parental knowledge and the conditions under which children and young learners thrive. The two critique the heavy-handedly imposed music lessons and sports teams of many child-rearing ideals and explore the role of self-direction in childhood…
Entrepreneurship and productivity magazines are rife with articles and posts about how you can “launch your company without any seed money!” or “make progress on your venture today!” These articles can be useful for helping you make incremental progress on an idea you already have, but what if you don’t have a project yet? There’s…