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Taking credit for my work
Taking credit, tooting my horn, call it whatever you want. I don’t love the spotlight. I have an ambiguous relationship with social...

Viva Sarah Press
Feb 19, 20202 min read


Greatest compliment a ghostwriter can get
A friend started to tell me about a blog she reads. The blog is found on a pharma website – not a place she’d usually look to for blogs....

Viva Sarah Press
Feb 13, 20201 min read


7 lines on innovation
Write about a project you led and take pride in -- in an allotted space of up to seven lines (not sentences). That was part of a Q&A...

Viva Sarah Press
Feb 11, 20201 min read


My daughter asked me to speak at her school. So, I created a new talk on health, sports & food tech.
When my daughter asked me to come to her new school to give a talk, her friend’s eyes nearly popped out. “You WANT your mom to come speak...

Viva Sarah Press
Feb 3, 20202 min read


How does innovation news hit the headlines?
On the one hand, innovation stories are mainstream news. You can read about new technologies, groundbreaking research and pioneering...

Viva Sarah Press
Jan 27, 20201 min read


What does Israel mean to you?
That’s my opening question to many groups when I give a talk about Israeli innovation and creativity. Religion. War. History. Those are...

Viva Sarah Press
Jan 13, 20201 min read


How I failed to be a sniffling soprano
In 2018-2019, my alter ego, Oshi, worked in schools as an educational clown. I blog about my experiences in the different schools from...

Viva Sarah Press
Jan 8, 20202 min read


Top stories of the decade
There are hundreds of journalists writing from Israel about Israel. There are thousands of stories to tell. How to tell the stories is...

Viva Sarah Press
Jan 8, 20203 min read


Let’s Fail Together
What’s it like to brainstorm an idea and then make it happen? Amazing! The idea: A duet talk on failure. Yes, sharing a mic. And yes,...
Viva Sarah Press
Jan 4, 20201 min read


Holy Water Religions: photos from my past
A new decade is here. A memory popped up. A memory of using film. A memory of my travels. And a memory that my mom z”l loved these photos.
Viva Sarah Press
Dec 29, 20192 min read


Best of 2019 ingenuity and failures
Getting ready to give two talks on Israeli creativity this week. Indeed, 2019 was a year of amazing creativity and innovation, with...
Viva Sarah Press
Dec 22, 20191 min read


Challenge accepted: Learn something new every day, if possible
I read. A lot. Maybe too much. Not just books. Articles. Research papers. Websites. Whatever topic jumps out at me. I'm reading it. I am...
Viva Sarah Press
Dec 3, 20191 min read


Yes, I’m excited to be in a promo as a face of failure
When I was interviewed for the Childhood Elsewhere documentary by journalist Zhou Yijun about education in Israel, I was filmed as my...
Viva Sarah Press
Nov 28, 20192 min read


What do you do that you love?
It’s a simple question. What do you do that you love? It was asked. I answered three things. My answers did and did not surprise me. ...
Viva Sarah Press
Nov 27, 20191 min read


How can we know about an innovation if we don't know its story?
Every day, brainstormers come up with awe-inspiring ideas. These ideas are twisted and twirled, shaken and stirred. When the idea is...
Viva Sarah Press
Nov 24, 20191 min read


An ode to teachers
For just over one year, I have spent a few hours a week as an educational clown in schools around Israel. It doesn’t matter at which...
Viva Sarah Press
Nov 20, 20191 min read


Innovation stories with the Wisconsin State Assembly
Talking about innovation from my journalistic point of view means talking about crazy ideas before they become global solutions. Which...
Viva Sarah Press
Nov 19, 20191 min read


Should freelancers work with friends?
A friend of a friend emailed me a request to ghostwrite a blog for a company she represents. In the email, there was a deadline, word...
Viva Sarah Press
Nov 10, 20193 min read


Women in Innovation: Stories
I love giving talks about innovation and creativity. On November 5, I shared a fun morning in Jerusalem with these awesome women from The...
Viva Sarah Press
Nov 7, 20191 min read


Killer Clowns Slay Therapeutic Clowns on Internet
Killer clowns are way more popular than their therapeutic counterparts. Although that shouldn’t be surprising. It’s been shown that...
Viva Sarah Press
Nov 3, 20191 min read
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