“If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.” This quote belongs to Jaime Lerner — architect, urban planner, mayor of Brazilian city Curitiba, and revolutionary thinker. He passed away last week. Lerner’s most famous urban planning inventions came from necessity…

I just started an MITx class called Sustainable Building Design with Christoph Reinhart. …

In my Neuroscience of Learning class this week, we learned about bias and error. Everyone is subject to errors in thinking. Dan Ariely’s “Predictably Irrational” does a great job of summarizing some of the most common cognitive biases we humans make. Spoiler: there’s a lot of them! There’s a good…

During our expat adventures in both Singapore and now Puerto Rico, we’ve been lucky enough to have made incredible friends. Making friends in a new city is hard. I consistently hear from people who are considering moving abroad that this is one of their biggest fears: losing their existing community…