One of the themes we build into much of our work at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching is the notion of engaging students not only as consumers of information, but also as producers of knowledge. Students, Please Get Out Your Phones.

To be Organic or not to be? That is the question. There are many gimics food companies use to pull you in. Many of us are unaware of their deceptions, and they tend to entice us without question. But what about the new craze sweeping over us? Are they all the same? Not at all. In fact, some of them may not mean what you think they mean at all.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

This is where I apply my experience as a Designer to help bring uniformity across product lines, integrated software and hardware ecosystems. Implement tools that help organizations manage complexity. Progress can get stalled without good process, but process is nothing without enforcement, understanding, and evolution.