What is the 50 Pages Project? West Virginia is at something of a crossroads. For years, various nonprofits and state agencies have been working on building an entrepreneurial culture from the ground up in West Virginia schools. The motivation for this is simple: West Virginia has lagged behind the rest of [...]
Episode 3: Strength & Wounds When I first developed the concept for this episode, I was in something of a funk. I had just returned from a meeting where the discussion centered on some of the issues that young people in West Virginia face after they leave school each day. [...]
Episode Two: Kin Ship Davis Davis is one of those guys whose life is made for storytelling. He and his wife, Hillary founded Kin Ship Goods in 2010 and have taken what started as an art gallery in Louisville, Kentucky, to a fast-growing quality of life retailer that sells merchandise [...]
50 Pages: Introduction West Virginia is at something of a crossroads. For years, various nonprofits and state agencies have been working on building an entrepreneurial culture from the ground up in West Virginia schools. The motivation for this is simple: West Virginia has lagged behind the rest of the country [...]
Do We Still Have the Right Stuff? In October 1957, the people of the United States awoke to a sound that shook the country to its foundation. The Soviet Union had launched a 220-pound sphere into orbit called Sputnik. It housed a small transmitter that emitted a 20MHz beep every few [...]
History as a Punchline We’ve lost our way. In the rush to help our children land lucrative careers in science, technology, engineering and math, we are teaching them that degrees in subjects like political science, economics, and history are non-starters in today’s job market. The sad truth is they are. Over [...]
Born Fighting Last year, I attended the funeral of a friend’s father. The entire service took place on a mountaintop overlooking a rural valley in West Virginia. As the family sat under a small canopy next to the casket, people stood loosely arranged in semi-circles emanating out for about thirty feet. [...]
