What I'm reading now

March 29, 2023•103 words

Definitely in reading / listening mode for the past few days. Highlights include:

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell. The book I didn't know I needed.
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. Rage-quit half way through: the structure of each paragraph/part/chapter is irritatingly repetitive, I don't think we would see eye to eye on meditation, and I think I saw references / quotes by the Dilbert guy later on, so, hard pass. The first half was useful, though.
Any album / tune by Hania Rani (so long as it's without lyrics).

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"Funded into existence"

March 25, 2023•123 words

This paper about the practices of edtech investors in higher education is worth your time if you think a lot about how things happen (or not) across the learning and education landscape. If you had a bajillion dollars to "fund into existence" a future of learning or education, what version of it would you go for? And, since odds are that you're a few dollars short, what could you do instead to make that vision more real? (Hint / pep talk: even the fattest, greediest cats in the edtech investo...

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March 30, 2023•39 words

“The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer.” (Ursula K. Le Guin) These are crazy times. How are you recording your tale of them? ...

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