Learning to Fail
Aaron DininStrategies for unlearning all the terrible lessons school taught you about failure, courtesy of that Duke professor who keeps popping up on your other social media feeds, too.
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The Real Price of Knowledge
In a video I posted last week, I committed what sometimes feels like the cardinal sin of social media — I dared to mispronounce a word.
Horrifying, right? Or rather, I assume that’s what the Internet thinks about mispronouncing words becau...
The Best Decisions You’ve Never Made
This week was orientation for Duke’s incoming students. As a result, campus has been full of freshmen doing… well… the things freshmen do, including lots of welcome events and programs.
I’ve been to a handful of the activities, which is al...
Two Ingredients, One Messy Lesson
This week, I have to confess to doing something I’ve never done before. It’s a little embarrassing to admit this so publicly to so many people… but… well… we’re all friends here, right?
Here it goes… and please don’t judge me…
I made a re...
The Fixable Failure That Happens Before We Even Start
If you’re reading these words, it means I finally did it… I finally managed to move this newsletter over to Substack. Hooray! Success!
Except the success I’m celebrating is the direct result of a long series of failures. Funny how that wor...
The Failures You’ll Never Fix
A NOTE FROM DR. DININ: As promised in my email last week, welcome to the new newsletter. Swanky, huh? More importantly, it’s going to help me deliver more of what you’ve been asking for, starting with a full archive of the entire first year...
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