dan oshinsky dot com: A blog about stories, the work... and my mother.

This is not a ground-breaking statement, but I’ll say it anyway: Life is confusing. We have so many questions and so few answers. And it’s tough to know who our role models should be. There are so many great leaders and thinkers and builders in our world. Who to model a life after? Gandhi? Lincoln? (…)

Tomorrow, I will speak at TEDxMU, the TED-approved event happening here at Mizzou. I’m enormously excited to be a part of the speaking list. Astronauts, businessmen, leaders and thinkers will be speaking. And me, somehow. Of course, I’m not content giving just any speech. I decided that if I was going to give a TED (…)

So here’s the moment when I absolutely knew that my team was special. It was back in January. My Missouri Tigers were playing their first Big 12 game of the year. Mizzou had been written off during the summer, when the Tigers lost Laurence Bowers — an All-Conference-caliber power forward — to a knee injury. (…)

In the fall of 2007, I decided that I wanted to study abroad. The rationale was simple: I was running out of classes to take at the University of Missouri, and also, I could get away with it. Seemed logical enough at the time. I decided that I’d go to Spain, and the study abroad (…)