Betterment

Massive leaps in utility and quality are extraordinary events. Going from ver 2.0 to 3.0 is a step change. But that is almost never what improvement looks like. Instead, the persistent commitment t…

In just about every group, people decide in advance how they’ll show up when it comes to learning, to winning and to responding to opportunities. They’re wearing a hat with a label, and…

We’re thrilled that you want to contribute to improving the system in the wake of an incident! For each post-incident action that you are proposing, we would appreciate it if you would fill o…

Most people have heard of or seen slide rules, with older generations likely having used these devices in school and at their jobs. As purely analog computers these ingenious devices use precompute…

In late midlife, a man tends to look back on the preceding decades, assess the standing of his health, relationships, professional achievements, and experiences, and determine whether or not his life has been a success.  But the timeline used in this assessment should be significantly longer — extending much farther back and far further forward.  […]

There was a tweet recently, talking about Ernest Hemingway. To paraphrase:  “Agreed, Hemingway was a deeply flawed human being. But so what,  you’re a

Two of the building blocks of a resilient society. And the opposite of the lazy shortcut. The meanings of both clauses change over time… Play fair: Everyone gets an opportunity to participate…

You’re probably familiar with the 80-20 rule: when 80% of the X stems from only 20% of the Y. For example, 80% of your revenue comes from only 20% of your customer, or 80% of the logs that yo…

AI agents are going to overhaul the way we think about buying and selling. Uber already did this in a small way. They organized the drivers, and now they organize the riders. Hailing a cab was alre…

As you may be aware, I’m a daily user of the note taking and management application, Obsidian. It is an incredibly useful tool that lets me build my own vaults of information that I can then easily cross reference and search. It has become my personal wiki tool of choice. My use of Obsidian runs a wide gamut across personal and professional aspects of my life, and I can often be found in deep focus working on any number of notes. But times are that sometimes I want to quickly add something to another note. Typically this might be to add an activity log entry to a daily note, but it could also be to add an idea to a running note, or the name of a TV show to watch. I have found myself skipping in and out of notes and disrupting my flow of work. I decided that I should come up with a solution that allowed me to add entries to other notes from any note, and that is what I’m going to cover in this post.

Tags are an alternative to the categorisation inherent to Johnny.Decimal. I have thoughts.

“Just a little more,” might be a useful way to self motivate, until it isn’t. N + 1 pushes us to win every race, every argument, every bank balance competition. Sometimes this is …

I'll never forget the first report Randy reviewed. I'm pretty certain he went through multiple red ink pens on that five page document.

If you’re sitting on the dock, watching the swim class without getting wet, it’s more accurate to say, “I’m just watching.” There are plenty of theories on how differe…

Arguments about taste are more common than ever before. The long tail makes it easy to find what you like, and to talk about what you don’t. There’s no accounting for taste, and that&#8…

Download scientific diagram | Deleuze and Guattari's six principles for rhizomatic thinking (Mackness, Bell and Funes 2015).   from publication: Participant association and emergent curriculum in a MOOC: Can the community be the curriculum? | We investigated how participants associated with each other and developed community in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) about Rhizomatic Learning (Rhizo14). We compared learner experiences in two social networking sites (SNSs), Facebook and Twitter. Our combination of... | Massive Open Online Courses, Facebook and Curriculum | ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists.

Rhizomatic learning is a variety of pedagogical practices informed by the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.[1][2] Explored initially as an application of post-structural thought to education, it has more recently been identified as methodology for net-enabled education.[3] In contrast to goal-directed and hierarchical theories of learning, it posits that learning is most effective when it allows participants to react to evolving circumstances, preserving lines of flight that allow a fluid and continually evolving redefinition of the task at hand.[4] In such a structure, "the community is the curriculum", subverting traditional notions of instructional design where objectives pre-exist student involvement.[5][6]

Programming languages and frameworks will change, but these skills will always be highly worth!

Apple just apologized for running an ad that no one seemed to like that received massive backlash online. Instead of the intended message: “Hey

A few hundred years ago, small towns in New England embraced the idea of the town hall. Citizens (at the time, just the white men) came together and worked through the town’s agenda. Each per…

It’s easy to see a complaint as simple whining, the narcissistic impatience of someone who has enough insulation from the real world that they can share their dissatisfaction over just about …

Newsletters are all the rage now. In recognition of that, I blogged here two years ago about the idea of writing a solo newsletter. Since then I’ve been co-producing this one with Katherine D…

Probability and cryptography have this in common: really smart people can be confidently wrong about both.

More thoughts on the granularity of IDs.

When Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue with his sextet, they spent a total of four days in the recording studio. They created one of the bestselling and most important jazz albums of all time in le…

If traditional economic theory was correct, price UP would equal demand DOWN, all the time, in every case, for every product.  And, often, that’s what

The seven obstacles to getting better, and how to move past them.

The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn’t change the fact that these two concurrent activities have different goals. The goal of fixing is to bring the sy…

Everyone in Silicon Valley likes to make introductions. Most of the time, it is less about the introduction itself and more about its subliminal meaning. Why do people make…

King Pyrrhus was an Ancient Greek king who fought a lengthy military campaign against the Romans. After one battle, he saw that he prevailed, but at great