Betterment

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

How much does it cost to get a new customer? How much do you make from every interaction with that customer? How long does the customer stick around? How many new customers will existing customers …

Researchers are learning that handwriting engages the brain in ways typing can't match, raising questions about the costs of ditching this age-old practice, especially for kids.

A simple trick to help you generate an endless supply of content

Captured in San Francisco on 6 Mar 2024 by Om Malik I write with a 100 year old pen and ink made by a company that is almost 300 years old. There is something gratifying about the technology perfec…

Knowledge workers depend on the production of new ideas. Methodologies and tools can help. But creative play in the tactile physical world can make an impact.

The other day, I was staring blankly at my bookshelf in my office while thinking about something related to the Art of Manliness. As I semi-zoned out, a book caught my eye: Fire in the Belly by Sam Keen.  I hadn’t cracked that book open in over a decade.  When I first started AoM back in 2008, I poured through all […]

We can agree that Isaac Newton didn’t invent gravity. It was here all along, but he gets some credit for naming it and describing it. And Columbus definitely didn’t discover North Ameri…

Peeves make lousy pets. They undermine us and put us on edge. But quirks? Little eccentricities we see in the world that offer a cost-free smile. Habits or interactions that always make us a little…

Among all artists, writers alone suffer the illusion that the world needs to hear what they have to say. I thought that line, or something like it, came from Rollo May, probably in The Courage to C…

“World renowned psychologist,” prolific author and C-suite executive coach, Dr. Jim Loer made a recent appearance on the always-excellent Knowledge