The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities

Picture this. Okay, you come home from work, you make yourself a delicious dinner, and then you’re left with an entire evening that you can spend as you like. But how you spend that evening can either leave you with some hours wasted on small unimportant …

Hi, I’m Dave Travis. I’m the test prep content manager at Khan Academy. It’s especially challenging when you make a mistake again and again and again. You know that you did it wrong. You know immediately when you did it that, “Oh, I did that thing again,…

The rigid and stiff will be broken. The soft and yielding will overcome. Lao Tzu. Generally, people admire strength and look down on weakness. We associate strength with being firm and energetic. Strength allows us to accomplish things, fight back agains…

In 1989, the largest oil spill in US history destroyed a remote Alaskan wilderness. That was a long time ago. Most people say the sound is back to normal, except for this man. He’s been studying killer whales caught up in the spill. He believes they’re st…

Every day you cross paths with countless strangers. People sit next to you on the bus; you’re a cashier at the grocery store, sends you a smile, and someone works out beside you at the gym. Often, these faces pass us by; there’s nothing particularly disti…

[music playing] So the terrain here is definitely getting steeper and more committing. But you know, so much of survival is about just trying to be resourceful. I just wonder if maybe we maybe use that old trunk. Use that, get that down, and then we can d…