Seth Godin: Homeschooled (2)
There are choices that parents make all the time. They range from enlisting your kid in a team sport that’s based on compliance, instead of… Read More »Seth Godin: Homeschooled (2)
Seth Godin: Homeschooled (1)
I think public school is essential. It’s important that we have a common denominator and that we don’t leave people behind simply because we can… Read More »Seth Godin: Homeschooled (1)
Work: living in the middle
With types of work (work: generative; work: decisive) the virtue is in the mean.** One plants, births, grows, opens. The other prevents, kills, prunes, closes.… Read More »Work: living in the middle
Ways in: ravelling the network
Interface A discipline, culture or scene is a network: a mesh of people, things, ideas and ways of doing things. It might be tightly defined,… Read More »Ways in: ravelling the network
Work: executive / decisive
These are tasks that you can finish and be done with – at least for a time. An annual report, paying a bill, creating a… Read More »Work: executive / decisive
Stability: Burke and incremental change
Steve Jobs is right about changing the world. And here’s Edmund Burke with a counterpoint – for society read ‘society’, but also, ‘family’, and ‘your… Read More »Stability: Burke and incremental change
On making stuff: that Steve Jobs quote
When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life… Read More »On making stuff: that Steve Jobs quote
Parallel processing: finding the right people
In computers, parallel processing is the processing of program instructions by dividing them among multiple processors with the objective of running a program in less time. TechTarget .… Read More »Parallel processing: finding the right people
In their hands
Make something people can use. Put it in their hands. See what happens. If they’re eager to pay – attention, time, money – you’re onto… Read More »In their hands
Work: generative
This is work that creates possibilities. It’s open ended, and while it might close some avenues down it generates even more new options, opportunities, connections… Read More »Work: generative