I quite like the phone but you can’t beat a space to chat at work. Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram seem pretty popular and open to most. Internet message boards and networks like Yammer have been around for a while and still have regular users. Radio listeners are up. Podcasts are the new radio. What about… Read More What’s the best learning platform?
I don’t mean pilots in the Checklist Manifesto sense. I mean pilots as small group projects which can be used as experiments, tests, and hacks. They work to small scale and pilots don’t fail; they just have different degrees of success. Pilot everything. In different places, at different times, with different people. Use the data… Read More Pilots don’t fail
The date of the webinar is in your calendar. You’ve looked at the cover notes and are keen to join it. 5 minutes before the event, you’re called into an urgent activity so miss the start. When you sort the immediate issue, you’ve missed half so you decide to watch the recording. But you never… Read More Let me just record that
When I was a kid, the thought of jetpacks, flying cars, and video communicators being available in the future was a tantalising and encouraging fantasy. Now that we’re IN my future, one out of three isn’t too great I’d guess. The future was framed as the fantastic; there would be technology to ease everything we did.… Read More The new normal
Someone recently asked me what my learning philosophy was. The question took me aback for a moment because I’ve not considered a philosophy behind what I do. Can I describe it? I have lots of stock phrases which people connect with – nil/neutral cost, shopkeeper to engineer, etc – but they’re not really descriptions of… Read More Learning philosophy
Lost and Desperate 