Zach Klein's Blog
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“Handwriting notes to thank people for generosity.” — Response from a mentor when I asked her which ritual she treasured most. -
“Great companies are vibrant, they can hardly contain themselves. It’s because they’re made by believers who want to find other believers and convert the rest.” — An email from Scott Kraft. -
Some friends and I are compiling an encyclopedia of rituals. You can follow our tumblr Human Rituals in the meantime.
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Botany.tumblr.com is a cool photo blog using my Slides theme.
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diy:
9 Year Old Discusses the Meaning of Life and the Universe
This 9 year old philosopher discusses his perspective on the meaning of life, free will, and extraterrestrials.
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Announcing DIY Clubs!
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“I’m Morial. I’m nine years old and I just joined DIY. I was wondering if you can just have a group of friends that come over regularly on the weekend. Does that count as a club???? Or is that just people over to play every Saturday? Please get back to me.” — Inquiry about starting a DIY Club. -
diy:
Club Maker is now a Skill.
Since the start of DIY tens of thousands of kids have joined and learned new skills. Lots of stop motion videos, duct tape and Minecraft. The community began to buzz when we added social features. Our members now regularly share feedback with each other, and go bonkers whenever someone shares an epic project. While there’s lots of activity online, what’s exciting for us is that most DIY activity is happening offline. They’re building snow caves, directing music videos, and scrambling lots of eggs.
We get it, making is most fun when you’re making with friends. We want to see our members continue making together, to meet offline, and that’s why we’re launching DIY Maker Clubs. A Maker Club can take many shapes - a punk band, robotics team, film crew, or just a group of friends - the possibilities are endless. To help get started we made the Club Maker skill. It’s filled with all the necessary challenges to learn how to organize and lead a group. Club Makers build the teams that tackle epic goals. By combining the skills of many Makers, a Club can reach awesomeness! Parents, mentors, and educators can help by paving the way. Help them find a space to meet regularly, gather tools and materials to enable them, and just keep encouraging them to make.
As the Club Coordinator at DIY I get to support these real life Maker Clubs around the world. If you’re curious about how to get your Maker Club off the ground, or want to share stories about your own Maker Club, I’d love to hear from you.
- Megan
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via diy
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“I can’t stress this enough: Do what you love…in between work commitments, and family commitments, and commitments that tend to pop up and take immediate precedence over doing the thing you love. Because the bottom line is that life is short, and you owe it to yourself to spend the majority of it giving yourself wholly and completely to something you absolutely hate, and 20 minutes here and there doing what you feel you were put on this earth to do.” -
We added a new section to Cabin Porn – Cabin Supplies – to recommend the tools and gear we use to live and work at Beaver Brook.
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“Capitalism means male baldness research gets more funding than malaria.” — Bill Gates, via Kanyi Maqubela. -
What a difference 8 years makes: St. Peter’s Square in 2005 and yesterday.
via Sam Lessin.
