Category Archives: learning

This week’s best of learning, design & technology

@SciAm Remote work better for innovation
@nireyal Choice Architecture
@ScottAdamsSays Writing Tips
@TechSmith & @JaneBozarth Video Viewer Study
@ashleywhillans Work/Life Balance

+tools & podcasts

“The most important skill is the skill of learning new skills – everything else will become obsolete over time.” Peter Drucker Happy Friday! It is my favorite day of the work week and my favorite time of year. I hope wherever you are, you’re able to experience some of your favorite things today. Thanks for reading!ContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | September 24, 2021”

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.His Holiness the Dalai Lama Happy Friday! I’m disappointed this week that right-wing extremismContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | September 17, 2021”

“If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.”Buddha Happy Friday!  We’re wrapping up the first few days of the new school year around here. The kids are readjusting from their summer schedule and the grownups are enjoying the possibilities of daytime quiet and flexibility. Hope you’re having a greatContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | August 20, 2021”

A skillful traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.TAO TE CHING Happy Friday! We’re coming down the home stretch on our big national park trip out west. It has been totally amazing – and a bit tiring. We’ve covered countless miles on a plane, in the car, in a raft, onContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 30, 2021”

“We find what we are looking for in life—if you look for happiness, you will see it; if you look for distrust and envy and hatred—all those things—you will find those too.” Alexander McCall Smith Happy Friday! We’ve made it to Montana and are taking in the 3B’s of Glacier National Park – bears, bigContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 23 2021”

“It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.”Howard Bloom Happy Friday! This is the last newsletter before I pack up my floppy travel hat and head out west for a big adventure with my family. I hope you’ve had aContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 16, 2021”

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man. He is sure to find an easy way of doing it.Walter Chrysler It is hard to believe that July is here already. Seems that summer just started and we’re already on the countdown towards the end of it. SpeakingContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 2, 2021”