Securing more speaking engagements quickly requires a strategic approach and dedication. Understanding the nature of speaking engagements, identifying your speaking goals, and finding your ideal audience are foundational steps that set the stage for success.
Read MoreWant to know how to become a keynote speaker? This guide will walk you through all the steps, from discovering your purpose to landing a TED Talk, and learning from TED Talks to refine your skills.
Read MoreAt Northwestern University, researchers have done something truly remarkable—they've watched water being created at the atomic level. Not in the sky, not in a lab beaker, but on the tiniest scale imaginable. It’s like watching nature’s magic show from behind the curtain.
Read MoreThe role of a keynote speaker is pivotal in setting the tone for an event and adding immense value to conferences and gatherings. They are the ones who invigorate the audience right from the start, delivering a keynote speech that is meticulously tailored to align with the event’s goals and themes.
Read MoreNew Yorkers are proud of many things, and their tap water ranks high on that list. It’s a symbol of the city’s quality of life and infrastructure. With the change in its water source, New Yorkers are up in arms. What exactly is happening and why this change?
Read MoreI recently experienced the worst headache of my life due to caffeine withdrawal. Here’s my story about quitting caffeine, the pros and cons, and what I recommend for others going on the caffeine free journey.
Read MoreInnovative water technologies often fail - some before they even see the light of day. Why is that?
Read MoreI’ve been to prison. Here’s who I met and how they’ve changed my life.
Read MoreWhat Autodesk’s acquisition of Innovyze means to me.
Read MoreThink of the wildest thing you’ve ever wanted to do.
Go to outer space? Deep-sea dive and see the remains of the Titanic? Sing in a famous rock and roll band in front of thousands of people?
Steve Sims is the man who can make it happen.
Water is the most important thing you never think about.
This is a water predictions article so you, and fellow water industry professionals, can laugh at me in ten years when I'm completely wrong.
You’ve decided you’re getting an MBA. Here’s a framework to help decide where to apply, including some reasons most people don’t consider when applying to b-school.
Read MoreShould you go to business school? Is an MBA useless, worth it, or something in between? Here's a simple framework on how to decide on whether or not you should to go b-school.
Read MoreTechnology promised us instant capture but stole our ability to be present. This piece is written as a conversation between myself and a fellow Write of Passage classmate, Ayomide Adebayo., about the effects of technology on our ability to capture memories and how we can choose to work with technology, not against it.
Read MoreEnding up in one of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, or ‘slums’, wasn’t the Saturday morning I had planned for after moving to Brazil. I ended up in what could have been a life-threatening situation that ultimately inspired my future career.
Read MoreZoom has a number of secrets very few people know about. By changing a handful of settings, you can make your meetings and conference calls more productive, more fun, and better for everyone.
Read MoreFrom 1890 to 1967 the sport of high jumping saw little innovation. Participants went over the bar in a handful of ways, with the intent to jump and land on their feet.
Jumpers preferred landing on their feet because it prevented them from getting hurt. And while there were many small changes in high jumping techniques over those 77 years, nothing compared to what happened in the summer of 1968.
At the Summer Games in Mexico City, a young college athlete named Dick Fosbury did something unfathomable. He jumped over the bar backwards.
This article highlights innovations like the Fosbury Flop, and the lessons in innovation that we can apply to our own lives.
You probably already write. You may have a journal, an old blog, or a semi-active Twitter account. But you’ve always wanted to do more. You follow authors and writers that inspire you. You want to publish consistently. You want to write more compelling pieces. You want to have a regular newsletter that people actively engage with. But you never really knew how - or where - to start.
If this resonates with you, you’re not alone. Lev Naginsky and I shared a similar experience. Here we share the most impactful principles and tools we learned from our time in an online writing course, as well as the tangible benefits we’ve seen since the course ended.
Read MoreThe year was 2012. Tim Ferriss’ best-selling book, The 4-Hour Workweek, had peaked on the NYT bestseller list for 5 years running. Everyone in my immediate social network and on Twitter was raving about it – this was the path to building a six figure plus ‘passive’ income… focused on outsourcing most, if not all, of the operations of a company to third parties around the world for dirt cheap prices.
The goal? Work from anywhere, anytime, with nothing more than a laptop and internet connection to gain freedom from the 9-5. How? By systematizing your company – having other people complete all the minutiae of the day-to-day operations – you are free to pursue other projects of your choosing. Or not, and just live on a beach in Mexico forever while your machine made money for you.
I, like many others, was shocked that this could even be a possibility let alone reality.
According to Microsoft, there are over 30 million PowerPoint presentations given every day. Nearly all of them are PowerPointless.
I started my career at a Fortune 500 company that had over 40,000 employees. I then moved to Brazil to work for a company with 50 employees.
Regardless of the size of the company, geographic location of the employees, or the language that colleagues spoke, the overwhelming majority of the presentations I was forced to endure were terrible.
The reasons for this vary. If you’ve been in any kind of environment where colleagues have to present on a regular basis I’m sure you can relate. As a simple experiment - think about all of the workplace presentations you’ve sat through in your life. How many do you remember? How many were a complete waste of time?
Although some of this post will discuss how PowerPoint has made presentations suck for everyone (sorry friends at Microsoft), that won’t be the main focus.
Instead, it will be to help you and your colleagues give better presentations with little to no extra effort.