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Every Friday is giveaway day. Comment to win! I first wrote about Megan Hunt in The $100 Startup. Since then she’s continued to inspire, working on various projects, raising her daughter, and co-founding a new fashion company called Hello Holiday. Hello Holiday features fun women’s clothing (in great colors!) from emerging designers. In a true…
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Two years ago at WDS we gave everyone $100 and sent them off with a charge to do something fun and meaningful. Throughout the next year we heard a lot of great stories about what happened with the money. We shared many of those stories at the following year’s event. Also that year, we…
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From a Harvard Business Review article cited by Tom Fishburne: “Executives and entrepreneurs face two very different sorts of risks. One is that their organization will make a bold move that failed — a risk they call ‘sinking the ship.’ The other is that their organization will fail to make a bold move that would…
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Marina Keegan was a writer, activist, and student at Yale. Before graduation she shared a few words for her fellow students: We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life. It’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just…
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I’ve been a fan of Shannon O’Donnell for several years. The posts on her site are always well thought out, and she’s also known for her work on international volunteering
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Here's the first second> final round of unfiltered reviews and opinions on a variety of topics related to WDS. Check them out and decide for yourself what WDS is all about!
File under: awesome travel advice. On any given week I spend at least several hours in making travel plans. I constantly go back and forth over the various options, sometimes becoming plagued by indecision. I talked about this recently with my friend and fellow wanderer Stephanie Zito, when we were riding around in a taxi…
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The story of San Francisco’s most unexpected half-marathoner. “I really don’t want too much. I just want to get up and stay healthy and enjoy this moment.” ###
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I love big cities, and always enjoy returning to Hong Kong, New York, and Sydney—among many others. But what about those unknown gems that are off the beaten tourist path… those obscure places that are just waiting to be explored by real travelers? Our new “Mini City Guides” are here to uncover those gems, and…
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Every Friday is giveaway day. Comment to win! If I had to pick one favorite airline, it’s a no-brainer: Cathay Pacific all the way! I’ve been fortunate to fly Cathay on at least a hundred flights over the years. I’ve flown most often in Business Class, which is really nice, and sometimes in Peasant Economy…
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I. Around the World Things I found on long walks in foreign cities, or perhaps when someone posted them on Twitter. Before You Know It Something’s Over — A beautiful essay on loss and identity Finding Your Father’s Ghost in an Old Video Game — A surprise (or two) when firing up a console from…
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When you’re evaluating a big decision, sometimes it’s helpful to ask yourself, “What’s the worst thing that can happen?” Most of the time, the worst-case scenario doesn’t actually come to pass. But sometimes it does. Tera and Wes told us this story at Pioneer Nation: We got the dream job. The one our careers had…
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Every year we see hundreds of blog posts from attendees. Here's the first second round of unfiltered reviews and opinions on a variety of topics related to WDS.
I downloaded another iPad game that was a lot like the one I wrote about in The Tower. It was probably a mistake, given my tendencies for going all-in, but once in a while I download a game and play it off and on for a couple weeks. Then I get bored and remove it…
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I first heard about Jedd & Michelle through a blog submission... but then I got the chance to work with them at WDS this summer. They were two of our most reliable and hard-working ambassadors (volunteers), and I loved hearing their story of serving abroad in Jamaica
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