"A soapbox is a raised platform on which one stands to make an impromptu speech, often about a political subject. The term originates from the days when speakers would elevate themselves by standing on a wooden crate originally used for shipment of soap or other dry goods from a manufacturer to a retail store. The term is also used metaphorically to describe a person engaging in often flamboyant impromptu or unofficial public speaking, as in the phrases "He's on his soapbox", or "Get off your soapbox."" (Source: Wikipedia)
A sandbox is used by children for unstructured, non-linear play. In software engineering, a sandbox is a testing environment that isolates untested code and experiments from the working software.
Soapbox: April 2020
In an earlier post I have discussed how COVID-19 takes an outsized toll on women in the workforce. Higher education is not immune and things may be worse than in other industries. Read more.
Soapbox: April 2020
As someone who thinks about trends for a living, I am concerned about how the COVID-19 pandemic affects women: it has the potential to wipe out a generation’s worth of progress towards gender equality. Read more.
Soapbox: February 2020
I have been thinking a lot about so-called "Smart Cities" lately. Here is the link to a talk I gave at my Department's Graduate Seminar in February 2020.
Soapbox: some time in 2018
I recently remembered (rediscovered) a report I wrote in 2018, in which I summarize my lessons learned from ten years of innovation and entrepreneurship education. A lot of these hard-won insights probably apply to other universities.