Starred in Pocket:
https://worksinprogress.substack.com/p/notes-on-progress-doing-science-backwards

Notes on Progress is a new diary-style format from Works in Progress, where some of our writers give a personal perspective on the work they’re doing and some of the questions they’re grappling with.

Notes on Progress: Doing science backwards

Preregistering research as a cure for scientific bias

worksinprogress.substack.com

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https://eliterate.us/workplace-learning-still-a-mess/

From the mid-’90’s through the mid-’00’s, I worked as what was then called an eLearning and knowledge management consultant for what was then called training and development departments.

Workplace Learning: Still a Mess

Twenty years later, it still looks broken to me.

e-Literate

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/

What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? In the Book of Genesis, we are told that the descendants of Noah built a great city in the land of Shinar. They built a tower “with its top in the heavens” to “make a name” for themselves.

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

It’s not just a phase.

The Atlantic

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https://www.svpg.com/product-vs-feature-teams/

This article is certain to upset many people. I’m sorry for that, but the degree of ongoing noise and confusion surrounding the role of product at tech companies is only getting worse.

Product vs. Feature Teams - Silicon Valley Product Group

This article is certain to upset many people. I’m sorry for that, but the degree of ongoing noise and confusion surrounding the role of product at tech companies is only getting worse.  Moreover, I see the issues and problematic behaviors getting institutionalized in conference talks, training programs and so-called certification programs for product people. I...

Silicon Valley Product Group

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https://commoncog.com/blog/how-note-taking-can-help-you-become-an-expert/

This is Part 2 in a series on learning in ill-structured, novel domains. That said, this post may be read as a standalone. In our previous members-only post we talked about Cognitive Flexibility Theory (CFT), a theory of adaptive expertise in ill-structured domains.

How Note Taking Can Help You Become an Expert

What Cognitive Flexibility Theory tells us about the acceleration of expertise in ill-structured domains.

Commoncog

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https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/07/08/brandeis-overhauls-phd-training-humanities

Most Ph.D. students won’t end up getting a tenure-track faculty job due to there being many more would-be assistant professors than available positions. Brandeis University is among a growing number of institutions to face that reality head-on.

Brandeis overhauls Ph.D. training in the humanities

Brandeis University overhauls Ph.D. training in the humanities and social sciences, including by funding internships on campus and off.

www.insidehighered.com

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https://world.hey.com/rjs/21-prototyping-to-learn-726e2d3e

The latest Circuit Breaker podcast with Bob and Greg goes into incredible depth on “Prototyping to Learn”. When Bob first told me about his approach to prototyping, I balked.

21. Prototyping to learn

The latest Circuit Breaker podcast with Bob and Greg goes into incredible depth on "Prototyping to Learn". When Bob first told me about his approach to prototyping, I balked. The idea of building out multiple versions of something seemed wasteful, like going backwards or sideways instead of forwards. I didn't want to hear it. After…

world.hey.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://every.to/divinations/what-kind-of-company-do-you-want-to-build

Quick note before we start: some of you may have noticed I haven’t published in a few weeks. Well, it was for a good reason.  Thanks so much for your patience while I was on paternity leave. It was great to take a few weeks off while my wife and I adjusted to our new patterns of life.

What kind of company do you want to build?

Scale, speed, or freedom: choose two

every.to

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https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/entrepreneurs/effective-founders-project/

Startups face many existential risks, from their finances to their technologies. But there is one risk which some research indicates is the biggest of all: 55% of startups fail because of people problems, according to researchers at Harvard, Stanford and the University of Chicago.

What we learned in studying the most effective founders

The Google for Startups Effective Founders Project dives deep into the leadership strategies of the most successful startups around the world.

Google

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https://www.calbright.org/newsroom/news/calbright-concludes-california-budget-cycle-fully-funded-moving-toward-achieving-strategic-goals/

June 30, 2022, Sacramento, CA – The California Legislature concluded the year’s session and budget process recognizing Calbright’s substantial progress. Full funding for the College is included in the state’s 2022-2023 fiscal year budget, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom.

CALBRIGHT CONCLUDES CALIFORNIA BUDGET CYCLE FULLY FUNDED, MOVING TOWARD ACHIEVING STRATEGIC GOALS

Full funding for the College is included in the state’s 2022-2023 fiscal year budget, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom.

Calbright College

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https://digitaleducation.stanford.edu/why-five-recipes-are-better-one

The cookbook, Simple to Spectacular, offers insights on more than making a tasty dinner. In his quarterly note, Vice Provost Matthew Rascoff explains its connection to an alternative paradigm  for learning that may foster more flexible, inclusive pathways in our education system.

Why five recipes are better than one

Digital Education

Starred in Pocket:
https://medium.com/emerge-edtech-insights/the-edtech-top-50-emerging-companies-for-workforce-development-f80cc1a8752b

Workforce development edtech is a busy space and it can be hard to keep up with the innovation in the sector. At Emerge Education we want to help you cut through the noise.

The edtech top 50 — emerging companies for workforce development

The edtech top 50 — emerging companies for workforce development

Medium

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https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/create-your-own-mathematical-mystery

You say 1. The box says 2. You say 2. The box says 5. 

Create Your Own Mathematical Mystery Box

Let's do a summer contest.

danmeyer.substack.com

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https://adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/natural-magic

I suspect many of you saw the coverage and commentary last week about the Google researcher who believes one of the company’s large language models, LaMDA, has become sentient.

Natural Magic

The creation of Disney's masterpiece, Snow White, gives us a preview of what may be coming with AI algorithms sophisticated enough to pass for sentient beings

adjacentpossible.substack.com

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https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/?utm_source=social-share&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2022

Stack Overflow for Teams enables enterprises to capture, share, & collaborate on knowledge internally. Promote your product or service to developers and technologists on Stack Overflow.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022

In May 2022 over 70,000 developers told us how they learn and level up, which tools they’re using, and what they want.

Stack Overflow

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https://www.chronicle.com/article/its-not-about-the-evidence-anymore

Scott Freeman has assembled the evidence: When STEM courses are taught using active-learning techniques rather than a standard lecture, students perform better, according to a widely cited meta-analysis he published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.

‘It’s Not About the Evidence Anymore’

Scott Freeman’s research shows that teaching with active-learning techniques works in STEM courses. So why is lecturing still the dominant model?

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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https://www.simplethread.com/5-big-takeaways-from-remix-conf/

Last week, I flew out to Salt Lake City and attended the inaugural Remix Conf: a two(ish) day event designed to cultivate and elevate the Remix community.

5 Big Takeaways from Remix Conf

These are our biggest takeaways from conversations that occurred on and off the main stage at the inaugural Remix Conf 2022.

Simple Thread

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https://www.beondeck.com/post/ama-david-hoang-webflow

This is an AMA recap from On Deck Design. ‍David Hoang is a product designer and angel investor whose work focuses on scaling startups ranging from two-sided marketplaces to software development tools. He is currently Head of Product Design at Webflow and Design Partner at On Deck.

AMA: David Hoang, Head of Product Design at Webflow

David Hoang, Head of Product Design at Webflow, ran an AMA in On Deck Design. Here's the recap.

www.beondeck.com

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https://postlight.com/insights/dont-let-the-backlog-drive-your-product

You’ll find it in any mature piece of enterprise software. There’s a core concept (e.g. “this tool helps managers do performance reviews”) but surrounding that core are layers and layers of features. Some are inexplicable.

Don't Let the Backlog Drive Your Product

You’ll find it in any mature piece of enterprise software. There’s a core concept (e.g. “this tool helps managers do performance reviews”) but surrounding ...

Postlight — Digital Strategy, Design and Engineering

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https://blog.southparkcommons.com/operating-in-the-changing-startup-environment-with-elad-gil-david-sacks/

Two legendary company builders and investors share what founders need to know to navigate a market downturn. The changing macro environment for startups has many founders feeling uneasy about the future of their companies.

Operating in the Changing Startup Environment with Elad Gil & David Sacks

Two legendary company builders and investors share what founders need to know to navigate a market downturn.

South Park Commons

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https://twitter.com/ddmeyer/status/1534979172564553729

🛠️ Interested in learning how to take your Desmos Activity building to the next level? We just opened registration for the second-ever ✨ Desmos Design 201 ✨ course! https://t.co/c

Twitter

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https://workshift.opencampusmedia.org/work-experience-isnt-priceless-its-40-percent-of-earnings/

We’ve all seen the stats: College, on average, pays off—but that doesn’t mean it pays off for everyone. And there are still people who make it good with just a high school diploma. Differences in race, gender, college majors, and career fields all play a role.

Work experience isn't priceless—it's 40 percent of earnings - Work Shift

New study finds that work experience—especially a good first employer and bold career moves—has an outsized influence on whether low-income workers move up the economic ladder.

Work Shift

Starred in Pocket:
https://blockprotocol.org/

An open standard for building and using data-driven blocks. Make your applications both human and machine-readable. Easily move data between applications without wrestling with APIs and custom integrations. View it any way you like in interactive blocks.

Block Protocol – an open standard for data-driven blocks

A standardized way to create blocks whose contents are mapped to schemas, which are both human and machine-readable.

Block Protocol

Starred in Pocket:
https://maggieappleton.com/block-data

Content managers, developers, and designers intersted in structured content and structured data.

The Block-Paved Path to Structured Data

How block-based interfaces can help us create more structured data on the web

Maggie Appleton

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https://commoncog.com/blog/playing-to-play-playing-to-win/

Lesley says this in the context of Ultimate — she was a coach for the Singaporean women’s world championship team. She says that when she was a player, she believed that certain methods of winning in frisbee were more legitimate than others.

Are You Playing to Play, or Playing to Win?

Make sure you're playing the real game, not some more complicated game you've made up for yourself.

Commoncog

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https://learningatscale.acm.org/las2022/

The Learning at Scale community investigates large-scale, technology-mediated learning environments that typically have many active learners and few experts on hand to guide their progress or respond to individual needs.

L@S 2022 | Learning at Scale 2022

learningatscale.acm.org

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https://markdoc.io

From personal blogs to massive documentation sites, Markdoc is a content authoring system that grows with you. Markdoc is a Markdown-based syntax and toolchain for creating custom documentation sites. Stripe created Markdoc to power our public docs.

A powerful, flexible, Markdown-based authoring framework

From personal blogs to massive documentation sites, Markdoc is a content authoring system that grows with you.

markdoc.io

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https://notion.so/blog/andy-matuschak

Andy is a software engineer, designer, and researcher working on technologies that expand what people can think and do. In past lives he helped build iOS at Apple and led R&D at Khan Academy. Now as an independent researcher, his methods bridge the gap between academia and Silicon Valley.

Andy Matuschak on physically-informed digital interface design

Andy Matuschak on physically-informed digital interface design

Notion

Starred in Pocket:
https://wintercg.org/

This community group aims to provide a space for JS runtimes to collaborate on API interoperability. We focus on documenting and improving interoperability of web platform APIs across runtimes (especially non-Browser ones).

WinterCG

The Web-interoperable Runtimes Community Group aims to provide a space for JS runtimes to collaborate on API interoperability.

wintercg.org

Starred in Pocket:
https://speed.cloudflare.com

Test your Internet connection. Check your network speed, latency, and jitter with our Internet speed test. Powered by Cloudflare’s global edge network.

Internet Speed Test - Measure Network Performance | Cloudflare

Test your Internet connection. Check your network performance with our Internet speed test. Powered by Cloudflare's global edge network.

speed.cloudflare.com

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https://www.notboring.co/p/primer-the-ambitious-home-for-ambitious

Welcome to the 931 newly Not Boring people who have joined us since Monday! If you haven’t subscribed, join 117,371 smart, curious folks by subscribing here: Happy Thursday!

Primer: The Ambitious Home for Ambitious Kids

Announcing a $15M Series A, Microschools, and Expert-Led Clubs

www.notboring.co

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https://tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5ib9cpqa/release/1

Although the idea of learning engineering dates back to the 1960s, there has been an explosion of interest in the area in the last decade.

Learning Engineering: A View on Where the Field Is at, Where It’s Going, and the Research Needed · Volume 3, Issue 1: Spring 2022

Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2022. DOI: 10.1037/tmb0000058

Technology, Mind, and Behavior

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https://stratechery.com/2022/back-to-the-future-of-twitter/

However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company. As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.

Back to the Future of Twitter

Twitter should go private and return to its pre-2012 approach of being a centralized service with third-party clients.

Stratechery by Ben Thompson

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https://klinger.io/posts/managing-people-%F0%9F%A4%AF

I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees as they learn how to manage groups of people. If this advice helps avoid a few cases, it’s worth writing it down. I wrote this article for managers of small teams/startups.

Managing people 🤯 | Andreas Klinger

I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this

Andreas Klinger

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https://www.readthegeneralist.com/briefing/leif-abraham

In collaboration with Composer… I’m excited to share something new I’ve been working on with Composer — one of the coolest investment products out there. Composer lets you invest in or build quantitative investment strategies called “symphonies” with their slick no-code editor.

The Wisdom List: Leif Abraham | The Generalist

The co-CEO of investing unicorn Public shares his lessons on fundraising, hiring and finding focus.

www.readthegeneralist.com

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https://www.mural.co/press-releases/mural-acquires-luma-launches-collaborative-intelligence

SAN FRANCISCO — March 28, 2022 — MURAL, the leading provider of digital workspaces for guided visual collaboration, announced today that it has acquired LUMA Institute (LUMA), a recognized global leader that equips people to be collaborative problem solvers through its acclaimed learning experie

MURAL Acquires LUMA Institute, Establishes Leadership in Collaborative Intelligence

MURAL Tackles $542 Billion Issue of Inefficient Collaboration With a New Discipline and System For Building Connection and Fostering Innovation at Work

www.mural.co

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https://www.aacu.org/initiatives/value-initiative/essential-learning-outcomes

The Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs) define the knowledge and skills gained from a liberal education, providing a framework to guide students’ cumulative progress.

Essential Learning Outcomes

The Essential Learning Outcomes (ELOs) define the knowledge and skills gained from a liberal education, providing a framework to guide students’ cumulative progress.

AAC&U

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http://www.segerman.org/autologlyphs.html

Falling somewhere between ambigrams, autological words, concrete poetry and graphic design, but with a definite mathematical slant, these seem to be a new artform, albeit (at least the ones I do) requiring varying amounts of math background to really appreciate.

www.segerman.org

Starred in Pocket:
https://twitter.com/rainmaker1973/status/1510688818776715265

While an autological word is a word that describes itself, e.g. “English”, “pentasyllabic”, an autologlyph is an image that describes itself. Here’s a collection by Henry Segerman: https://t.co/fi

Twitter

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/science/education-learning-challenge.html

Several common educational strategies lean into the idea that, in the classroom, challenge is something to embrace. When Hunter, 6, started first grade last autumn, he struggled to match letter sounds with the shape of letters on paper. He found writing letters hard and writing words even harder.

Learning the Right Way to Struggle

Several common educational strategies lean into the idea that, in the classroom, challenge is something to embrace.

www.nytimes.com

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https://ourworldindata.org/longtermism

What I learned from writing this post is that our future is potentially very, very big. This is what I try to convey here. If we keep each other safe – and protect ourselves from the risks that nature and we ourselves pose – we are only at the beginning of human history.

Longtermism: The future is vast – what does this mean for our own life?

If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.

Our World in Data

Starred in Pocket:
https://replicache.dev/

Realtime Multiplayer Collaboration. Popularized by Google Docs, Figma, and Notion — realtime collaboration is awesome, but famously hard to build. Replicache provides a programming model that makes it much easier. Bring Your Own Backend.

Replicache

Replicache is a JavaScript library for building zero-latency, live-updating web UIs based on Realtime Sync.

replicache.dev

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-03-22-income-share-agreements-aren-t-the-revolution-we-thought-they-d-be

Some entrepreneurs and educators have seen Income Share Agreements, or ISAs, as a new way to improve diversity and access to higher education. The idea is students pay nothing up front for college but pledge to pay a percentage of their wages for a set time after they graduate and get a job.

Income-Share Agreements Aren't the Revolution We Thought They'd Be - EdSurge News

Some entrepreneurs and educators have seen Income Share Agreements, or ISAs, as a new way to improve diversity and access to higher education. The idea ...

EdSurge

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https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are/

Colleges selected by institutions as peers show the power players in the world of higher education. Those choices also reveal sometimes surprising connections. Explore the 1,595 colleges in this network to find out more, or read our article to learn about the trends.

Who Does Your College Think Its Peers Are?

The Chronicle compiled the peer institutions for nearly 1,500 institutions from the 2020-21 year.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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https://firstmark.medium.com/what-i-wish-id-known-earlier-engineering-leadership-lessons-with-zapier-s-co-founder-cto-8a7152404c62

Bryan Helming is the Co-Founder and CTO of Zapier, the no-code breakout company that provides “easy automation for busy people.” Zapier is reported to have eclipsed $140M+ ARR in 2021 and is valued at over $5B.

“What I Wish I’d Known Earlier”  Engineering Leadership Lessons with Zapier’s Co-Founder & CTO

CTO Lessons from Zapier’s Co-Founder & CTO, Bryan Helmig

Medium

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https://blog.replit.com/codemirror

At Replit, our mission is to bring the next billion software creators online. In order to achieve that ambitious goal, we need to make sure that the experience of writing, running, and sharing code is as seamless as possible. At the heart of that experience is the editor itself.

Betting on CodeMirror

At Replit, our mission is to bring the next billion software creators online. In order to achieve that ambitious goal, we need to make…

Replit Blog

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-interleaving-effect-mixing-it-up-boosts-learning/

We’ve all heard the adage: practice makes perfect! In other words, acquiring skills takes time and effort. But how exactly does one go about learning a complex subject such as tennis, calculus, or even how to play the violin? An age-old answer is: practice one skill at a time.

The Interleaving Effect: Mixing It Up Boosts Learning

Studying related skills or concepts in parallel is a surprisingly effective way to train your brain

Scientific American

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https://seths.blog/2014/01/how-to-draw-an-owl/

The two circles aren’t the point. Getting the two circles right is a good idea, but lots of people manage that part. No, the difficult part is learning to see what an owl looks like.

How to draw an owl

The problem with most business and leadership advice is that it's a little like this: The two circles aren't the point. Getting the two circles right is a good idea, but lots of people ma…

Seth's Blog

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-every-company-edtech-reach-capital

In 2011, Marc Andreessen proclaimed that “Software Is Eating the World.” We have seen that prediction unfold across every industry, from commerce to real estate, finance and fashion, media and hospitality, and especially in recent years, education.

Why Every Company Will Be an Edtech Company

by Esteban Sosnik, General Partner at Reach Capital In 2011, Marc Andreessen proclaimed that “Software Is Eating the World.” We have seen that prediction unfold across every industry, from commerce to real estate, finance and fashion, media and hospitality, and especially in recent years, education.

www.linkedin.com

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https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/6233ecafdc551a002089fb15/lessons-from-19-years-in-the-metaverse/

Welcome to Galaxy Brain—a newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology, media, culture, and big ideas. You can read what this is all about here. If you like what you see, consider forwarding it to a friend or two.

Second Life’s Mistakes Should Inform Today’s Metaverse

A conversation with one of the few people who have real historical perspective on digital communities

Galaxy Brain

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https://klinger.io/posts/fyi-how-founders-can-avoid-drive-by-management

Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be misunderstood as directions or decisions. Even if we didn’t intend this to happen.

#fyi: How founders can avoid drive-by-management | Andreas Klinger

Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be misunderstood as directions or decisions...

Andreas Klinger

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https://www.johnhagel.com/cultivating-emotions-through-learning-platforms/

My new book, The Journey Beyond Fear, covers a lot of ground, but perhaps the most speculative and also the most promising involves the untapped opportunity to deploy and participate in learning platforms.

Cultivating Emotions Through Learning Platforms – John Hagel

www.johnhagel.com

Starred in Pocket:
https://www.inkandswitch.com/crosscut/

Thinking doesn’t just happen in our heads. When faced with a problem, we rarely sit perfectly still and just think. Instead, we interact with the world around us. We move around the room, talk to other people or to ourselves, write notes, draw diagrams, build prototypes, act out scenarios.

Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models

Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.

www.inkandswitch.com

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https://library.serviceinnovation.org/KCS/KCS_v6/KCS_v6_Practices_Guide

The latest and most complete collection of information about how to do Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS®). This description of the KCS Practices and techniques is based on the collective experience of the Consortium members. (v6 released 21 April 2016. See changes in Appendix A.

KCS v6 Practices Guide

Consortium for Service Innovation

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https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-03-29-an-unusual-way-to-charge-for-college-make-it-voluntary

The cost of college keeps climbing, and schools these days are considering all kinds of innovative options to keep costs low. But one liberal-arts college recently announced a radical new approach that does away with the idea of tuition altogether and instead counts on something else: gratitude.

An Unusual Way to Charge for College: Make It Voluntary - EdSurge News

One liberal-arts college recently announced a radical new approach that does away with the idea of tuition

EdSurge

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https://eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/how-to-grow-the-startup-economy

In a previous post On Economic Growth, I made the case for why growing the economy is a moral imperative.

How to Grow The Startup Economy

There's no natural limit on the amount of successful startups

eriktorenberg.substack.com

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https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/does-wordle-prove-that-we-can-have-nice-things-on-the-internet

The first time I met Josh Wardle—four years before he invented the simple game that would make his last name, or a slant rhyme of it, unexpectedly famous—he was in Reddit’s San Francisco headquarters, in a state of near-panic, wondering whether one of his online experiments was about to descen

​​Does Wordle Prove That We Can Have Nice Things on the Internet?

Josh Wardle created the viral game as part of his ongoing quest to design online spaces that don’t devolve into spam and swastikas.

The New Yorker

Starred in Pocket:
https://maggieappleton.com/programmatic-notes

Most “note-taking” or “knowledge management” software acts as a passive storage container. You create notes, shuffle them around into folders, add a few tags, and then they sit there. Waiting. Until you consciously remember go looking for them.

Programmable Notes

Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows

Maggie Appleton

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https://junglegym.substack.com/p/do-we-owe-our-careers-to-our-country

✨ If you’re a new reader, thanks for stopping by. Feel free to check out this introductory post, which explains what The Jungle Gym is all about. You can be anything you want to be – or so we tell American girls and boys.

Do we owe our careers to our country?

How the Japanese concept of Ikigai can address America's talent gaps

junglegym.substack.com

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https://n8n.io/blog/announcing-new-sustainable-use-license/

We’ve always believed fair-code was the best model for building n8n. That’s because fair-code offers people many of the same benefits of open source (e.g. extensibility, security, privacy, transparency) while also ensuring you can build a sustainable business.

Announcing the new Sustainable Use License

We changed our license from Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause to the new Sustainable Use License. Here’s why we did this and what it means for you, our users.

n8n Blog

Starred in Pocket:
https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1508251374257008640

Going into startups, no one tells you that fighting is part of the job. At Replit, the toughest people we have to fight are dark web hackers. One time we went head-to-head against an underground group doing really bad things on our service — this is the story:

Twitter

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https://www.fohe.org/

Future of Higher Ed (“FOHE”) has quickly become one of the leading global communities for founders and practitioners focused on the future of higher education. Through sector collaboration and bold innovation, we’re building a brighter future for all learners.

Future of Higher Education

www.fohe.org

Starred in Pocket:
https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth

For the world to transition to low-carbon electricity, energy from these sources needs to be cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels. Fossil fuels dominate the global power supply because until very recently electricity from fossil fuels was far cheaper than electricity from renewables.

Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?

Fossil fuels dominate the global power supply because until very recently electricity from fossil fuels was the cheapest. This has changed dramatically. In most places power from new renewables is now cheaper than new fossil fuels.

Our World in Data

Starred in Pocket:
https://subconscious.substack.com/p/block-reference-mechanisms

Writing is linear, serial, and one side-effect of communicating serially is that you have to force ideas into some sort of order. And so: stories. Authors flatten clouds of connected ideas into linear stories (lossy).

Block reference mechanisms

Writing is linear, serial, and one side-effect of communicating serially is that you have to force ideas into some sort of order. And so: stories. Authors flatten clouds of connected ideas into linear stories (lossy). Readers unbundle these linear stories, and stitch them into their own nonlinear cloud of connected ideas (lossy).

subconscious.substack.com