January 2011
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Booknotes: Clayton Christensen: Disrupting Class →
In short: For people with an interest in education and for management geeks like me who enjoy the clarity and depth of management techniques applied to education. Overly optimistic about the prospects for change because it underestimates the strength of the political forces opposing change. Anyone interested in innovation management will find this book a great case study, possibly unparalleled in...
Jan 30th
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“But these kids are not there because of the coffee, they are there because they...”
– The Coffee Shop Dilemma | TransLeadership To a limited extent our efforts in Participant-Centered Learning do create a blended space (especially in analytics and other computer-lab type classes). Of course, these techniques are used to educate people in the mid-20s to early 30s (MBA students) and...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 18th
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Booknotes: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary... →
In short: old love story in near-future dystopian society, overly transparent for individuals, Orwellian and secretive at the commanding heights. Interesting concepts, well executed; maybe too much emphasis on sex. More, with spoilers, on my Booknotes blog.
Jan 18th
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Booknotes: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary... →
In short: old love story in near-future dystopian society, overly transparent for individuals, Orwellian and secretive at the commanding heights. Interesting concepts, well executed; maybe too much emphasis on sex. More, with spoilers, on by Booknotes blog.
Jan 18th
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“Buffet replied, but there’s a “natural progression” to how...”
– Why Do Smart People Do Such Dumb Things? - Bill Taylor - Harvard Business Review Buffett, for the win!
Jan 18th
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“Buffet replied, but there’s a “natural progression” to how...”
– Why Do Smart People Do Such Dumb Things? - Bill Taylor - Harvard Business Review Buffett, for the win!
Jan 18th
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Jan 13th
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“In 1986, to celebrate the 900th anniversary of William the Conqueror’s...”
– The new versus the new-new | The Rational Optimist… Says all you need to know about the “exponential growth of technological innovation,” really. Though one might also use it as an example of the value of open standards, which make backward compatibility much easier.
Jan 11th
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“In 1986, to celebrate the 900th anniversary of William the Conqueror’s...”
– The new versus the new-new | The Rational Optimist… Says all you need to know about the “exponential growth of technological innovation,” really. Though one might also use it as an example of the value of open standards, which make backward compatibility much easier.
Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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The decline of civilization is not Kim...
“Social media’s enabling of stupidity is the beginning of the end of civilization.” So I hear, but it’s wrong. Social media is not making our population stupid; stupidity has been around for much longer than social media. And the consequences of the confluence of stupidity and social media are not dire, but rather tacky. Kim Kardashian, whose major accomplishment, as far...
Jan 6th
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The decline of civilization is not Kim...
“Social media’s enabling of stupidity is the beginning of the end of civilization.” So I hear, but it’s wrong. Social media is not making our population stupid; stupidity has been around for much longer than social media. And the consequences of the confluence of stupidity and social media are not dire, but rather tacky. Kim Kardashian, whose major accomplishment, as far...
Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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Stop. Trying. To. Please. Every. Audience.
Listening to the director and producers commentary track on the Star Trek 2009 remake (yes, I know!), I despair of the future. Midway through the initial battle scene, interspersed with the birth of James T Kirk (Canon violation: Kirk was born in Iowa), one of the producers says something along these lines: And we wanted to have a scene like this here for our wives. We want to get this...
Jan 5th
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Stop. Trying. To. Please. Every. Audience.
Listening to the director and producers commentary track on the Star Trek 2009 remake (yes, I know!), I despair of the future. Midway through the initial battle scene, interspersed with the birth of James T Kirk (Canon violation: Kirk was born in Iowa), one of the producers says something along these lines: And we wanted to have a scene like this here for our wives. We want to get this...
Jan 5th
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Jan 2nd
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“Now, if you gain 40 pounds of fat over 20 years, that’s an average of two pounds...”
– The Inanity of Overeating | Gary Taubes I stopped looking at calories once I learned how they are measured: by burning food. Apparently the efficiency of the biochemical conversion process is assumed to be isomorphic to that of burning food in open air. Rule #1 of really understanding data: know...
Jan 2nd
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“A submarine once seemed about as ridiculously impossible as an invisibility...”
– 8 Sci-Fi Technologies That Are No Longer Just Fiction I wonder what I could do with teleportation, an invisibility cloak, laser weaponry, levitation, holograms, and a mind-reading machine. I have no use for hoverboards.
Jan 2nd
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“A submarine once seemed about as ridiculously impossible as an invisibility...”
– 8 Sci-Fi Technologies That Are No Longer Just Fiction I wonder what I could do with teleportation, an invisibility cloak, laser weaponry, levitation, holograms, and a mind-reading machine. I have no use for hoverboards.
Jan 2nd
“Now, if you gain 40 pounds of fat over 20 years, that’s an average of two pounds...”
– The Inanity of Overeating | Gary Taubes I stopped looking at calories once I learned how they are measured: by burning food. Apparently the efficiency of the biochemical conversion process is assumed to be isomorphic to that of burning food in open air. Rule #1 of really understanding data: know...
Jan 2nd
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