If AI can be used to create content within organisations, what’s to stop people using it in their applications for jobs? I saw a role recently asking for experience in being able to ‘develop, manage and implement training, learning and development work within the company’. I asked ChatGPT what best practice in this might look… Read More Creative writing
At the start of the summer I mentioned how asynchronous design had to be taken more seriously in the way we thought about modern learning. I seemed to have lost my way* in completing the list of topics – the last post on this was in June – so I will look at the next… Read More Asynchronous creative practice
Never underestimate the freedoms afforded to you when you work for yourself. Yes, there are stresses, and there are most certainly more challenges than working for an employer. But. I’ve had the chance to choose some incredibly interesting and intellectually stimulating work, both creative and critical, this week, which would be unique and unachievable as… Read More Never Underestimate
I know I get stuff wrong. When I write something like the 50 more Big Ideas for example, I ‘know’ some people will be looking at it and criticising, challenging and probably laughing. As Seth Godin so brilliantly put this week, if people aren’t laughing behind your back: …it’s possible you’re not being bold enough,… Read More Comedic interludes
I was reading an article last week about how the analogue revival in design isn’t really analogue. It’s a digitally fabricated imperfection with texture packs simulating hand-lettering and the aesthetic of human effort, without the effort. The sharpest line in the article: once handmade becomes valuable, it becomes something to mimic. The signal gets mistaken… Read More Faking the human