by Mike Macfadden | May 8, 2020
Atomic Habits What follows are a couple of takeaways that I gathered from James Clear’s book Atomic Habits. James Clear is a writer that I’ve been following for years. I learned of Clear by accidentally modeling my personal website off of his. I say...
by Mike Macfadden | Jan 25, 2018
Conforming to a traditional grading system in a project based curriculum is one of the biggest instructional challenges in teaching entrepreneurship authentically. The Challenge In the real world, there are no report cards. The notion of a “C+” doesn’t really exist to...
by Mike Macfadden | Jan 24, 2018
In this short post, I’d like to share a real customer conversation that I held with an acquaintance to model the MVP Experimentation phase of an entrepreneurship curriculum. HappyGramm.com In my first year of teaching high school entrepreneurship, I conceived of...
by Mike Macfadden | Dec 20, 2017
The slides above are intended to be used for demonstration purposes when putting together an Minimum Viable Product Pitch Deck. Exemplars The slides in the deck in this post come from 6 different student teams’ minimum viable product pitch decks. Do not consider...
by Mike Macfadden | Dec 14, 2017
In this post, I share one of my favorite graphic design projects – the Low Poly Portrait. It’s a student favorite too. High Level Overview From a high level, a low poly portrait is simply a portrait made of many triangles that share common edges that, when...
