Other hard starts
Loads of things are hard to start: Running doesn’t start feeling good until you’ve done it quite a lot Same goes for swimming Learning to… Read More »Other hard starts
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Vision. Positioning. Execution. (2)
Four types of vision: Vision of what is: the good, the bad… and the missing. Vision of possibilities: seeing what could be, or what could… Read More »Vision. Positioning. Execution. (2)
How tools spread
How do tools – ideas and understandings, practices, and real physical tools – get to the people who need them? Some tools may only need… Read More »How tools spread
DriverlessSpecodile (The DC Podcast Spec)
This is an attempt at speccing the DC podcast using questions from Seth Godin’s This is Marketing. 1. Audience: Who do I seek to serve?… Read More »DriverlessSpecodile (The DC Podcast Spec)
Driverless Crocodile Podcast: 6 Questions
Here’s the draft of six questions for first interviews on the DC podcast – let me know what you think. Spec for the podcast (which… Read More »Driverless Crocodile Podcast: 6 Questions
Motto (2): Learn lots
Have fun, learn lots, work hard, be kind. If you hadn’t learnt, you’d be dead. If other people hadn’t learnt, it’s much less likely you’d… Read More »Motto (2): Learn lots
Peter Morville on Category and Taxonomy (1)
While findability comes first, we must also remember that categories are about more than retrieval. Classification helps our users to understand. Through splitting, lumping and… Read More »Peter Morville on Category and Taxonomy (1)
Deep literacy: Kevin Kelly on more than reading
… producing books with ease on Gutenberg’s press did not fully unleash text. Real literacy also required a long list of innovations and techniques that… Read More »Deep literacy: Kevin Kelly on more than reading
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)