We have four natural enemies: fear, clarity, power, and old age. Fear, clarity, and power can be overcome, but not old age. Its effect can be postponed, but it can never be overcome. Carlos Castaneda,…
Date Archives 2018
The Science of Thinking
How the brain works, how we learn, and why we sometimes make stupid. mistakes.
Find Your Freedom
This week we explore the give and take of freedom. Are we really free and is the freedom we do have, balanced?
Some Easy Life Math For You – Lifehack #001
How good are you with math? Here’s some easy life math for you.
Sometimes a fantasy
I found myself caught up in this debate on Reddit: AITA for taking husband’s sex doll to the trash? In this instance, I think the lady was definitely wrong. By her own admission, she knew…
The durable stuff
I stumbled upon the “stock and flow” conversation again today. Quite timely really as I’ve been reevaluating where and on what I spend my time on when I’m on the Net (actually as I wrote…
It’s time for a revolution in learning
Picked this up from Giovanna Lo Storto. I’m happy to be a part of the upcoming learning revolution. It’s definitely about time for one! ¡Viva la revolución!
Pause for a second.
Now scan the canon of your past. Now reflect: How has everything that has happened in your life led you to this precise moment in time?
The biggest learning platform on the planet?
On my mind this morning is learning in a connected world and where e-learning 3.0 is going. One of the largest learning platforms in the world, of course, is Youtube. As a self-directed learning platform…
Going down the Web 3.0 rabbit hole
Starting the day off in total geek-dom…reading up on the decentralised web and IPFS (InterPlanetary Files System. ? — Clay Lowe (@soulcruzer) November 29, 2018
Catherine Nicholson dispels some of the myths surrounding virtual training
I’ve been interested in virtual training since the early days of Webex. The game has changed in the virtual training space and I was curious to know from someone who does a lot of training…
Catherine Nicholson dispels some of the myths surrounding virtual training
I’ve been interested in virtual training since the early days of Webex. The game has changed in the virtual training space and I was curious to know from someone who does a lot of training in this space, what is the field of virtual training like these da
I think I broke my brain
I have a renewed interest in nootropics, the so-called smart drugs for cognitive enhancement. I spoke to my good friend JJ who is kind of a geek about these things.
#nootropics #smartdrugs
The happiness pill
I’ve been exploring this week the various angles we use to wiggle our way into happiness and try to create a system that makes happiness a constant instead of the variable that it is.
Getting back into the game
In anticipation of the video-making I’ll be doing in the near future with my learning design work, I thought I’d best brush off my video editing skills. I don’t make as many videos these days,…
Some days it’s a real struggle
Some days it’s a real struggle deciding whether I want to go fast or go far.
Finding the sweet spot
The general advice is to find your passion and do that for a living. But you need to add a little bit more to the equation. Find the intersection of these three things: Things you…
Whenever I feel stuck
One of my favorite tools to use when I’m feeling stuck and unable to make a decision about something, I turn to Robert Dilt’s Logical Levels. I also use it as a coaching tool. Sometimes I…
They don’t want you to take the test
Nir Eyal posted this on Medium: How to achieve your goals by creating an enemy. I was going to flick on by it, but I didn’t. I wanted to see what he had to say…