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Erik Torenberg: Here Comes The Sun
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A blog about ideas, people, education, and personal development. Thursday, April 5, 2012. Here Comes The Sun. A very close friend of mine, in many ways someone who I grew up with in college, took her life last week. Jordan Harris was loved by virtually everyone she came into contact with. She will be remembered as the “Sun”, always extending warmth to those around her. She was someone who danced and sang and cooked and listened and studied and hugged and laughed and loved. And then immediate tears. In th...
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Erik Torenberg: The Chaser EP
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A blog about ideas, people, education, and personal development. Friday, March 9, 2012. After writing, editing, and recording four songs over the last year and a half, my band. Released our first EP last week. Take a listen. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Art of Non-Conformity. 8220;Everything Is Figoureoutable:” Notes from Paris to Doha. Ep 217 – Tony Robbins: About The Time Tony Robbins Smashed The Podcast Table (and other things I learned). The Focused Rise of Wesley So. Ben Casnocha: The Blog.
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Erik Torenberg: Book Review: So Good They Can't Ignore You
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A blog about ideas, people, education, and personal development. Thursday, October 4, 2012. Book Review: So Good They Can't Ignore You. Let me start by saying that I’m deeply grateful to Cal Newport for his insights over the past few years. They’ve encouraged me to implement Deliberate Practice, batch e-mails, engage in a shut-down ritual, delete my facebook, and eschew the Passion Mindset in favor of a craftsman approach. His book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You. You don’t follow. If you understand this,...
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Erik Torenberg: The Real Conversation
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A blog about ideas, people, education, and personal development. Wednesday, February 8, 2012. A couple weeks ago, Obama came to campus and spoke about the importance of making higher education more affordable. He mentioned nothing about improving its quality. I wrote the following as a piece for Consider. To dissatisfied college graduates, such as Michael Ellsberg. To even college professors, such as Richard Arum. Also lamented the quality of higher education, citing self-executed studies that revealed a...
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Erik Torenberg: Halfway Point
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A blog about ideas, people, education, and personal development. Monday, June 18, 2012. A token of my appreciation and gratitude for everything that's happened in the last six months, in images, videos, and freestyles:. Also, I gotta add how grateful I am for this hilariously brilliant piece. About my band, Chaser. That guy could play the air trumpet almost as well as I can! July 3, 2012 at 1:16 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Art of Non-Conformity. The Focused Rise of Wesley So.
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Erik Torenberg: The Chaser Story
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A blog about ideas, people, education, and personal development. Monday, January 3, 2011. We started off as friends just playing music. Now we are still friends, just playing music. But we’ve also started taking ourselves slightly more seriously, basking in the childish boastfulness of possibility all bands go through, while having a few band practices and playing at a few open mic nights (OMN’s). Exactly), and I’m screaming The Orientation at the top of my lungs. When we come together we’re Chaser...
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Erik Torenberg: Wisdom From the Youth on my Birthday
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A blog about ideas, people, education, and personal development. Sunday, February 12, 2012. Wisdom From the Youth on my Birthday. For my birthday last year,. I asked adults for reflections - in either paragraph or haiku form - on whether they regretted anything they did or *didn't* do when they were 21. Were some of their answers. This year, for my 22nd birthday,. I'm asking my friends under 22 - who are no less wiser than the people I asked last year - to give me the gift of answering the following:.
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Erik Torenberg: The Palmer Squares
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A blog about ideas, people, education, and personal development. Friday, January 4, 2013. I interviewed and wrote about a rap group I've been a big fan of recently: The Palmer Squares. The profile is below the fold. In other news, I've recently been relishing Rushdie's books: Midnight's Children, Shame, now the Satanic Verses, and after I'll read his recent memoir. I Watch a Palmer Squares video, and I have no idea what I’m looking at. Why are two white boys rapping in a bathtub? Put my piff in the spliff.
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Erik Torenberg: Just Freestyle
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A blog about ideas, people, education, and personal development. Tuesday, November 13, 2012. The below piece was written a month ago and published in DVP's Streetfighter. Magazine. It followed us rapping on stage at the Quicken Family Reunion here. Raptfm itself was born from a freestyle. I didn’t know, nine months ago, at Startup weekend Ann Arbor, that I would even pitch the concept, let alone pursue it full time in Detroit. I thought, and grabbed the mic. In the next stall over, hearing us freestyle a...
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Erik Torenberg: The Entrepreneurial Kid
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A blog about ideas, people, education, and personal development. Wednesday, March 7, 2012. In an Atlantic article ten years ago, David Brooks coined the term that defined that generation of Ivy League students: The Organization Kid. However, for the most part, there’s a new kid in town. One who’s more sensual, free-spirited, and conscious-driven. She attends TED conferences and film festivals, updates her Tumblr and Twitter feed, directs videos, cooks meals, and loves all types of mus...He’s the so...