2018
529 posts in 2018.
November 2018
- Weeknote 48/2018
- See you in 2019!
- A conversation with Adam Procter about Project 'NodeNoggin'
- Weeknote 47/2018
- Routine and ambition (quote)
- Is the unbundling and rebundling of Higher Education actually a bad thing?
- Credentials and standardisation
- Are we nearing the end of the Facebook era?
- Weeknote 46/2018
- Asking Google philosophical questions
- Gamifying Wikipedia for new editors
- Daily routine (quote)
- The many uses of autonomous vehicles
- Weeknote 45/2018
- Open source is as much about culture as it is about code
- What are 'internet-era ways of working'?
- Is UBI 'hush money'?
- Issue [#323]: 46 hours in transit
- Weeknote 44/2018
- Nature of things (quote)
- Identity is a pattern in time
October 2018
- An app to close down your workday effectively
- Immortality and Sunday afternoons (quote)
- CUNY Commons in a Box OpenLab
- Time's brevity (quote)
- Weeknote 43/2018
- Issue [#322]: Back-to-back
- Openness, sharing, and choosing a CC license
- Tennessee Williams on the problems that come with success
- What would you do if you were the richest man in the world? Now you can find out!
- Configuring your iPhone for productivity (and privacy, security?)
- Time flies (quote)
- Designing calm products
- Quality Mountain Day 15: Dale Head, Hindscarth, and High Spy
- Wishing and planning (quote)
- Is planning just guessing?
- Issue [#321]: Small talk and tiny conferences
- Weeknote 42/2018
- Absorb what is useful (quote)
- Decentralisation and networked agency
- Are tiny conferences and meetups better than big ones?
- Small talk and sociability
- Issue [#320]: The power of appreciation
- Weeknote 41/2018
- The majority (quote)
- Co-operation and anti-social punishment in different societies
- How do people learn?
- Reappropriating the artifacts of late-stage capitalism
- Venture beyond the expected (quote)
- Myths about children and digital technologies
- World Mental Health Day: my story
- GAFA: time to 'ignore and withdraw'?
- Graceful conduct (quote)
- Issue [#319]: Operation Twilight
- Weeknote 40/2018
- Example and opinion (quote)
- Insidious Instagram influencers?
- The end of 'meritocracy' at Mozilla
- Is Google becoming more like Facebook?
- Bullshit receptivity scale
- Listen well (quote)
- Seven coaching questions
September 2018
- Issue [#318]: Blisters a-go-go
- Weeknote 39/2018
- Some values-based career advice
- Quality Mountain Day 14: Whiteside Pike, Ancrow Brow, and White Howe (Lake District)
- Why desk jobs are exhausting
- Microshifts are more effective than epiphanies
- Quality Mountain Day 13: Park Fell, High Street, and Ill Bell (Lake District)
- An incorrect approach to teaching History
- Cory Doctorow on Big Tech, monopolies, and decentralisation
- Airbnb wants to give out shares to its superhosts
- Experimenting with turning on comments for a week
- Issue [#317]: The Path to better social networks
- Weeknote 38/2018
- Why badge endorsement is a game-changer
- Internalising the logic of social media
- The Digital Knowledge Loop
- Kindness and courage (quote)
- The rise and rise of e-sports
- Online conformity (quote)
- A portal into a decentralised universe
- (Educational) consulting for the uninitiated
- The fate of private social networks
- Blogging and content marketing (quote)
- Issue [#316]: Is that better? 🙄 🙄 🙄
- Weeknote 37/2018
- Charity is no substitute for justice
- Creativity (quote)
- Audiobooks vs reading
- What the EU's copyright directive means in practice
- The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources
- Working (quote)
- 6 things that the best jobs have in common
- Invisible turmoil (quote)
- Simple sustainable stories
- Issue [#315]: Minimalism FTW
- Weeknote 36/2018
- What do happy teenagers do?
- Burnout-prevention rules
- Feedback from the community
- Expertise and knowledge (quote)
- Fluency without conceptual understanding
- Dealing with the downsides of remote working
- Natural light as an 'office perk'
- Choice (quote)
- The importance of marginalia
- We're back (with lots of new links!)
- Weeknote 35/2018
August 2018
July 2018
- A Stoic (quote)
- Tracking vs advertising
- Keeping track of articles you want to read
- Issue #314: Final Holiday Countdown 🏁 ⏲️ 🏖️
- Weeknote 30/2018
- Introverts, collaboration, and creativity
- Busyness and value creation
- Original work (quote)
- Assassination markets now available on the blockchain
- Not my circus (quote)
- When we eat matters
- LinkedIn: the game?
- Data transfer as a 'hedge'?
- Issue #313: Mootivation
- Weeknote 29/2018
- Childhood amnesia
- You cant escape your problems through travel
- Don Norman on human-centred technologies
- Be good for something (quote)
- How emoji triplets could help with trust and identity on decentralised social networks
- Work and play (quote)
- Issue #312: If it's not one thing, it's another
- Weeknote 28/2018
- Break the rules like an artist (quote)
- On 'radical incompetence'
- Populism today (quote)
- Blogging in the Fediverse with Write.as
- On living in public
- Artistic value (quote)
- Problems with the present and future of work are of our own making
- Issue #311: Under canvas
- Weeknote 27/2018
- Wisdom and experience (quote)
- Shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies (quote)
- The dangers of distracted parenting
- Cory Doctorow on the corruption at the heart of Facebook
- On 'unique' organisational cultures
- Issue #310: Moodling about in Barcelona
June 2018
- Weeknote 26/2018
- Fear (quote)
- Reduce your costs, retain your focus
- The link between sleep and creativity
- Attention scarcity as an existential threat
- Our irresistible screens of splendour
- Rethinking hierarchy
- Freedom (quote)
- Issue #309: Different
- Weeknote 25/2018
- Crawling before you walk
- Issue 308: World Cup(cake)
- Weeknote 24/2018
- Higher Education and blockchain
- On 'instagrammability'
- F*** off Google
- Open source community calls in the wake of GDPR
- Seed of good (quote)
- Where memes come from
- The seductive logic of technology (quote)
- Inequality, anarchy, and the course of human history
- Issue #307: Home on the range
- Mediocrity (quote)
- Git yourself off that platform!
- Weeknote 23/2018
- All the questions (quote)
- Blockchain was just a stepping stone
- Living with anxiety
- "You’re either a leader everywhere or nowhere"
- Sociocratic design sprints
- Systems change
- Finding friends and family without smartphones, maps, or GPS
- Where migraines end and I begin
- Issue #306: Bachelor lifestyle
- Weeknote 22/2018
- Why NASA is better than Facebook at writing software
- The best teams are cognitively diverse and psychologically safe
- No opinion (quote)
May 2018
- On 'academic innovation'
- Criticism (quote)
- Protocols for the free web
- Encumbered by civilization (quote)
- Paywalls and Patreon
- Good, hard work (quote)
- Issue #305: Sprinting into the distance
- Weeknote 21/2018
- Wielding your pension fund for good
- First tea, then revolution
- Sensible people
- Useful mental models
- Nobody is ready for GDPR
- Measuring ability and greatness
- Estonia goes for free public transport
- The toughest smartphones on the market
- The increase in worker-owned co-ops
- Issue #304: Grateful Dead Public Radio
- Weeknote 20/2018
- The New Octopus: going beyond managerial interventions for internet giants
- Schedule your priorities
- Owners need to invest in employees to have them feel invested in their work
- On blogging
- Peace of mind
- The disappearing computer and the future of AI
- Trust and the cult of your PLN
- The role of Lady Luck
- Issue #303: Rest your weary head
- Weeknote 19/2018
- Altruism
- Work-life balance is actually a circle, according to Jeff Bezos
- Nothing better to do
- The virtue of rest
- Tolerating uncertainty
- Quality Mountain Day 12: Black Craig, Knockower, and Coran of Portmark (Galloway Hills, Scotland)
- Quality Mountain Day 11: Merrick (Galloway Hills, Scotland)
- Alexa for Kids as babysitter?
- Weeknote 18/2018
- Getting on the edtech bus
- Bootstraps
- Space as a service
April 2018
- Blockchain as a 'futuristic integrity wand'
- Profit vs benefit
- Some utopian thoughts
- Issue #302: Read aloud for maximum effect
- Weeknote 17/2018
- What can dreams of a communist robot utopia teach us about human nature?
- Escaping from the crush of circumstances
- The benefits of reading aloud to children
- You need more daylight to sleep better
- On the cultural value of memes
- The résumé is a poor proxy for a human being
- OEP (Open Educational Pragmatism?)
- Everything is potentially a meme
- How to be super-productive
- Thinking outdoors
- Issue #301: Endless horse
- Weeknote 16/2018
- Clickbait and switch?
- Read for freedom
- Soviet-era industrial design
- Conversational implicature
- Ryan Holiday's 13 daily life-changing habits
- Valuing and signalling your skills
- Intimate data analytics in education
- All killer, no filler
- Do what you can
- Systems thinking and AI
- Issue #300: Tricentennial
- Weeknote 15/2018
- The four things you need to become an intellectual
- Craig Mod's subtle redesign of the hardware Kindle
- Profiting from your enemies
- The root of all happiness
- Random Street View does exactly what you think it does
- Long-term investments
- Deciding what to do next
- Designing for privacy
- Multiple income streams
- Winnowing the MoodleNet project down to MVP size
- In praise of ordinary lives
- Issue #299: Jersey shore
- Alienated life
- Weeknote 14/2018
- All that is gold does not glitter
- The death of the newsfeed (is much exaggerated)
- Absentee leadership
- Social internet vs social media
- The '1, 2, 3' approach to organising your working day
- Truth
- No easy answers
- Blockcerts mobile
- Automated Chinese jaywalking fines are a foretaste of so-called 'smart cities'
- My takeaways from Stephen Downes' talk on personal learning
- What's the link between employment and creativity?
- Mozilla's Web Literacy Curriculum
- Issue #298: Easter treats
March 2018
- Albert Camus quotation
- xkcd on conversational dynamics
- Weeknote 13/2018
- Not everyone is going to like you
- No-one wants a single identity, online or offline
- Contentment
- The spectrum of work autonomy
- Ignorance and dogmatism
- Every part of your digital life is being tracked, packaged up, and sold
- Survival in the age of surveillance
- How to get hired
- Alternatives to all of Facebook's main features
- Issue #297: Springing forward
- Weeknote 12/2018
- The only privacy policy that matters is your own
- Co-operation
- Support Thought Shrapnel on Patreon
- OERu has a social network
- Anxiety
- Moral needs and user needs
- On struggle
- Going deep
- Derek Sivers has quit Facebook (hint: you should, too)
- Superficial and imperfect knowledge
- Bridging technologies
- How to choose an open license for your project
- Mystery of life
- Decision fatigue and parenting
- Tech will eat itself
- Issue #296: Goodbye winter blues
- Weeknote 11/2018
- On playing video games with your kids
- Browser extensions FTW
- The tenets of 'Slow Thought'
- Wisdom and riches
- Different ways of knowing
- Beginning and middle
- Slack's bait-and-switch?
- The security guide as literary genre
- Do the thing
- Memento mori
- Microcast #005
- Issue #295: A wee problem...
- Weeknote 10/2018
- Living an antifragile life
- The end/beginning
- Archives of Radical Philosophy
- Moodling around with a Jetpack metaphor
- Do the tools you use matter?
- Is your smartphone a very real part of who you are?
- Microcast #004
- Masterpieces
- Microcast #003
- Teaching kids about computers and coding
- 30,000 hours of sleep
- Microcast #002
- Building a bridge
- The three things you need to make friends over the age of 30
- Microcast #001
- Issue #294: Snowmaggedon ❄️
- Happiness
- Microcast #000
- Tact
- Geek social fallacies
- Weeknote 09/2018
- Google's new Slack competitor
- 10 breakthrough technologies for 2018
February 2018
- The moon is getting 4G
- Possible - impossible
- Your best decisions don't come when you demand them
- Some great links for Product Managers
- Final steps in my GDPR journey
- Firefox OS lives on in The Matrix
- The 'loudness' of our thoughts affects how we judge external sounds
- Issue #293: Making cheese grate again
- Arbitrary deadlines are the enemy of creativity
- Small 'b' blogging
- Weeknote 08/2018
- What we can learn from Seneca about dying well
- Light and deep
- Anonymity vs accountability
- On your deathbed, you're not going to wish that you'd spent more time on Facebook
- The Goldilocks Rule
- Showing off
- On the death of Google/Apache Wave (and the lessons we can learn from it)
- To lose old styles of reading is to lose a part of ourselves
- Issue #292: Is there a cure for Tasmania? 🇦🇺
- Weeknote 07/2018
- Does the world need interactive emails?
- The Kano model
- Is the gig economy the mass exploitation of millennials?
- Humans are not machines
- Legislating against manipulated 'facts' is a slippery slope
- Obvious
- Why we forget most of what we read
- Should you lower your expectations?
- Trust
- Why do some things go viral?
- Humans responsible for the Black Death
- The world's most nutritious foods
- Audio Adversarial speech-to-text
- Sounds and smells can help reinforce learning while you sleep
- Every easy thing is hard again
- Issue #291: Necessary koalafications 🐨
- Weeknote 06/2018
- Why good parents have naughty children
- Lost
- Telegram cryptocurrency
- Rock piles and cathedrals
- Platform censorship and the threat to democracy
- Decentralisation is the only way to wean people off capitalist social media
- Europe is being taken over by crayfish that can clone themselves
- Alzheimer's is a kind of 'type 3' diabetes
- Puertopia
- Experimenting with a channel-based approach for online resource sharing
- Worth the risks?
- Creating media, not just consuming it
- GDPR, blockchain, and privacy
- Continuing my GDPR journey
- Living in a dictatorship
- Culture is the behaviour you reward and punish
- Are cows less valuable than wolves?
- How we get influence backwards
- Issue #290: Unscathed
- The punk rock internet
- Weeknote 05/2018
- The origin of the term 'open source'
- Optimism
- The Project Design Tetrahedron
- Promising everything
- Designing social systems
- Irony doesn't scale
- Web Trends Map 2018 (or 'why we can't have nice things')
January 2018
- So, what do you do?
- Creating the world's smallest social network (for testing purposes)
- The military implications of fitness tech
- Audrey Watters on technology addiction
- No cash, no freedom?
- Depression as an evolutionary advantage?
- Product managers as knowledge centralisers
- Using VR with kids
- More on the mechanics of GDPR
- Augmented and Virtual Reality on the web
- The horror of the Bett Show
- Issue #289: Loooooong week
- More haste, less speed
- Weeknote 04/2018
- Ethical design in social networks
- Reading the web on your own terms
- The NSA (and GCHQ) can find you by your 'voiceprint' even if you're speaking a foreign language on a burner phone
- Favourable winds
- Listening to video game soundtracks can improve your productivity
- Technology to connect and communicate
- Are conferences a vestige of a bygone era?
- A useful IndieWeb primer
- Three most harmful addictions
- More on Facebook's 'trusted news' system
- Living in capitalism
- Anxiety is the price of convenience
- Social networking and GDPR
- Different sorts of time
- Some podcast recommendations
- DuckDuckGo moves beyond search
- Facebook is under attack
- Where would your country be if the world was like Pangea?
- Amazon Go, talent and labour
- WTF is GDPR?
- Decentralisation 2.0
- The rise and rise of niche newsletters
- First step
- The backstory of Apple's emoji
- Tribal politics in social networks
- Some advice for a happy family life
- Issue #288: Socially and emotionally unavailable
- A world without work
- Weeknote 03/2018
- Few wants
- Film posters of the Russian avant-garde
- Atlas of Hillforts
- Gendered AI?
- Imprisoned in prejudices
- Barely anyone uses 2FA
- Courage
- Using your phone wisely
- The wilderness of intuition
- Can you measure social and emotional skills?
- Bullet Journal like a Pro
- Choose your connected silo
- Game-changing modular wheels
- The full complexity of life
- From Homer to texting and Twitter
- Would you be nuked?
- Where did 'Å' come from?
- Getting better at using tools
- Cool decentralisation resources from MozFest
- This isn't the golden age of free speech
- Open source apps for agile project teams
- On the difference between people-centric and resource-centric social networks
- Robo-advisors are coming for your job (and that's OK)
- Opposite of manliness
- Thought Shrapnel #287: My bad
- Weeknote 02/2018
- Reasons to be cheerful
- Attention is an arms race
- Barcelona to go open source by 2019
- In a dark place
- How to build a consensual social network
- Bigger the dream...
- Money in, blood out
- Venture Communism?
- Fake amusement park
- Questions to ask before taking your next job
- Dreamers who do
- Deliberate rest, cognitive momentum, and differentiated work hours
- You get paid what other people think you're worth
- Meltdown and Spectre explained by xkcd
- Meaningless work causes depression
- It doesn't matter if you don't use AI assistants if everyone else does
- Thought Shrapnel #286: New beginnings
- Social media short-circuits democracy
- Spain is on the wrong timezone
- Foucault understood the power of ambiguity
- Weeknote 01/2018
- Fridays are a social construct
- Privacy-based browser extensions
- Twitter isn't going to ban Trump, no matter what
- Redesigning Doug Belshaw's Thought Shrapnel
- Charisma instead of hierarchy?
- Education is about the journey, not the destination
- Mozilla is creating an Open Leadership Map
- Life in likes
- Dark kitchens, dark factories... is this the future of automation?
- Thinking about social logins and identity on the web
- Capitalism can make you obese
- It's not advertising, it's statistical behaviour-modification
- How to prevent being 'cryptojacked'
- Why I didn't go on 'Belshaw Black Ops' at the end of 2017
- Fred Wilson's predictions for 2018
- Albert Wenger's reading list
- Data-driven society: utopia or dystopia?
- Are social networks a public health issue?
- Commit to improving your security in 2018
- To 'quit' isn't necessarily the opposite of having 'grit'
- Now are the Olympics
- How to run an Open Source project