From Doug Belshaw’s Thought Shrapnel, this post reminded me a bit of the Note to Self Bored and Brilliant challenge from maybe decade ago. It also echoes of one of the lessons I’ve learned from karate, to be weary of the three Zs (“zees”): too busy, too lazy, too easy. Anyway, it lead to to…

I came across this one via Tom Woodward’s Bionic Teaching. If you land on the page in French there is an English version. Badge AI was created by Philippe Bourque, CEO of Cérebrum and an Artist Engineer from Quebec City. Taking inspiration from Creative Commons, Badge AI offers a framework for creators to show how…

I’d thought about ignoring this one until AK posted Course Design Should Cost Zero…or Not. AK always ends with “your thoughts?” so I guess here I am. I ran into the “kerfuffle” via Downes, although I also follow Crosslin, Wiley, AK, and used to follow Siemens although he’s moved around a bit since I read…

Along the lines of the last post I commented on from Doug Belshaw, this also reflects on identify and how what you do for work my swallow that. I’m more familiar with Mike Monteiro’s talks, F*ck You Pay Me, and What Your Client’s Don’t Know and Why It’s Your Fault. Both are excellent watches/listens. That’s…

Doug Belshaw’s Thought Shrapnel always has interesting stuff to read. Here he shared an excerpt from Kai Brach’s “Dense Discovery” newsletter that resonated with me, what to do with that terrible social interaction that begins with “What do you do?” There was some interaction I was in over a decade ago where this question came…

This is another response from Matt Crosslin to George Siemens on AI. I came across it in OLDaily. Downes notes first the comparison of companies, governments, etc. as a sort of intelligent system. But that if you remove all the people, the company, government, or social system ceases to function (much like a Mechanical Turk)…