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The best way to have good ideas is to have lots of ideas.Linus Paulding I’m in the middle of preparing for a keynote about learning technology and could really use your help? What are some of your favorite apps that you use for learning. For example, a couple of things that I’m excited about areContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | September 11, 2020”

“Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.” Alain de Botton Knock on wood. We’re off to a smooth start to our online school year. There is talk of moving to a hybrid (½ online, ½ face-to-face) model at the end of the month. Personally, I think that willContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | September 4, 2020”

“How much more damage anger and grief do than the things that cause them.” Marcus Aurelius It is fascinating how often the items I find for this newsletter form around a common theme. This week a theme has formed around how to learn which, since you’re reading this you’ll probably agree is very important. IContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | August 28, 2020”

“Shift your mindset to look at something as an experiment rather than something with a potential of failure.” Dorie Clark We’re enjoying the last couple weeks before school starts around here. We got out for a nice kayak outing and beefed up our wifi since there will be four of us at home online allContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | August 14, 2020”

Modern networking: Make things, write about ideas, and tell people what you’re working on. @david_perell I had a fantastic time being part of the amazing LearningCon this week. With three days worth of sessions aimed at three different global time zones I couldn’t catch them all but I came away from all of the onesContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | August 7, 2020”

“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not old.” — Rosalyn Yalow It was back to work time this week even though part of my brain is still floating on a lake in Wisconsin. Lots of uncertainty around here right now. Looks like no fall sports forContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 31, 2020”

A day wasted at the lake is time well spent. Welcome to the vacation edition of this weekly newsletter. We’ve been enjoying the beautiful Wisconsin weather out on the boat and just generally lazing around this. Slowing down for some good meals off the grill and game nights with the family have been just whatContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 23, 2020”

“Training gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration solves new problems none have solved before.” —Marcia Conner I am super excited to be heading off for some much-needed vacation time. Soon after I hit the publish button on this, we’ll be loading up and heading out for some time at the lake. I’m lookingContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 17, 2020”

“You have: Training, Schooling, Benchmarks, Industry peers, Entrenched experience, Data, data, dataThey have: great ideas, not-so-great ideas. You’re the expert…not the order taker. Listen, consult & lead.” —Jen Hartman Our family is super excited to have officially started the count down until we head off to Lake Kegonsa for some much-needed downtime next week. AnotherContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 10, 2020”