My talk has the same title as this blog post. This morning I gave a new talk with a tool that I hadn’t used before: Prezi. I’ll ruminate on my experience with the tool some other time. Here’s the Prezi file I spoke from (the link is only good through Oct. 21, when Prezi will remove it). MORE >>

Read more about the talk on Mark’s blog or follow it on Upcoming. Ages ago, Doc introduced me to John Taylor Gatto ’s essay The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher (since upgraded to eight lessons, I think). I’ve been a fan ever since, and met him a couple of times. It rambles, but it’s a wowzer. MORE >>

At the IDLO Microfinance Project workshop in Dar es Salaam, I asked the 25 collected participants to blog, email or otherwise tell us what are the most powerful things Obama might do to help Africa. Punish any Western, European, Asian or Arab country that allows ill-gotten wealth to be kept in their country. MORE >>