2019
206 posts in 2019.
- 2019: arriving at myself
- Weeknote 50/2019
- Weeknote 49/2019
- Weeknote 48/2019
- Rebalancing my focus for 2020
- Weeknote 47/2019
- Weeknote 46/2019
- Quick update!
- Weeknote 45/2019
- Weeknote 44/2019
- Friday fablings
- Microcast #080 - Redecentralize and MozFest
- Weeknote 43/2019
- Friday facilitations
- We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us on or spare us
- Microcast #079 - information environments
- Weeknote 42/2019
- Friday flowerings
- Microcast #078 — Values-based organisations
- I am not fond of expecting catastrophes, but there are cracks in the universe
- Weeknote 41/2019
- Friday fawnings
- People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think
- Weeknote 40/2019
- Friday flexitarianism
- Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet
- Eulogy for Dai Barnes
- Weeknote 39/2019
- Friday fluctuations
- It’s not a revolution if nobody loses
- Saturday strikings
- Weeknote 38/2019
- On the lack of ambiguity at the heart of 'Open Core'
- All is petty, inconstant, and perishable
- Weeknote 37/2019
- Friday fermentations
- If you change nothing, nothing will change
- Weeknote 36/2019
- Friday feudalism
- To refrain from imitation is the best revenge
- Weeknote 35/2019
- Friday floutings
- The best way out is always through
- Friday flinchings
- Weeknote 34/2019
- It is the child within us that trembles before death
- Weeknotes 32 & 33/2019
- #RIPDai: in memory of a good friend
- Weeknote 31/2019
- Friday fizzles
- The best place to be is somewhere else?
- Weeknote 30/2019
- A quick dive into ALT's journal with my MoodleNet hat on
- Friday fidgetings
- Neoliberalism in any guise is not the solution but the problem
- Weeknote 29/2019
- Friday federations
- The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge
- Weeknote 28/2019
- Friday ferretings
- Do not impose one's own standard on the work of others. Mutual moderation and cooperation will proffer better results.
- Weeknote 27/2019
- Quality Mountain Days 19 & 20: Sharp Edge and Hayeswater Gill
- Friday frustrations
- Aren’t you ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnants of your life and to dedicate to wisdom only that time can’t be directed to business?
- Weeknote 26/2019
- Friday feeds
- Ensuring the sustainability of Thought Shrapnel
- Our nature is such that the common duties of human relationships occupy a great part of the course of our life
- Weeknote 25/2019
- Friday fancies
- The world is all variation and dissimilarity
- The habit of sardonic contemplation is the hardest habit of all to break
- To be perfectly symmetrical is to be perfectly dead
- Quality Mountain Days 17 & 18: Skiddaw, Great Calva, High Pike, and Carrock Fell
- Life doesn’t depend on any one opinion, any one custom, or any one century
- Weeknote 24/2019
- Friday feastings
- Even in their sleep men are at work
- The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it
- Situations can be described but not given names
- There’s no perfection where there’s no selection
- Weeknote 23/2019
- Friday fathomings
- There’s no viagra for enlightenment
- Wretched is a mind anxious about the future
- Only thoughts conceived while walking have any value
- What is no good for the hive is no good for the bee
- Weeknote 22/2019
- Friday fabrications
- Men fear wanderers for they have no rules
- We give nothing so generously as our advice
- Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them
- We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves
- Weeknote 21/2019
- Friday fumblings
- One can see only what one has already seen
- Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again
- Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present
- Idleness always produces fickle changes of mind
- Weeknote 20/2019
- Friday finds
- The school system is a modern phenomenon, as is the childhood it produces
- Form is the possibility of structure
- Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving
- That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate
- Change your launcher, change your life
- Weeknote 19/2019
- Fascinating Friday Facts
- There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless
- Sometimes even to live is an act of courage
- Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things
- Quality Mountain Day 16: Fairfield, Dollywaggon Pike & Helvellyn
- The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention
- Weeknote 18/2019
- A little Friday randomness
- Educational institutions are at a crossroads of relevance
- Remote work is a different beast
- Culture eats strategy for breakfast
- Things that people think are wrong (but aren't)
- Where are the weeknotes, Doug?
- Cutting the Gordian knot of 'screen time'
- The benefits of Artificial Intelligence
- The drawbacks of Artificial Intelligence
- Opting in and out of algorithms
- Let's not force children to define their future selves through the lens of 'work'
- How to subscribe to Thought Shrapnel Daily
- Fediverse field trip
- My ChromeOS apps and extensions
- What we need is an Open Badges community renaissance, free of IMS involvement
- Giving up Thought Shrapnel for Lent
- Weeknote 09/2019
- Human societies, hierarchy, and networks
- The introvert's dilemma
- Success and enthusiasm (quote)
- Foldable displays are going to make the future pretty amazing
- A 3-step guide to completing your thesis when you're feeling utterly overwhelmed
- Weeknote 08/2019
- So you think you're organised?
- Blockchains: not so 'unhackable' after all?
- Open Badges and ADCs
- On anger (quote)
- Weeknote 07/2019
- What UK children are watching (and why)
- Individual steps to tackle climate change
- Games (and learning) mechanics
- Is edtech even a thing any more?
- Optimise for energy and motivation
- So long Digitalme, and thanks for all the fish
- Process and product of change (quote)
- Tenacious will (quote)
- Weeknote 06/2019
- Experimenting with a Slack-based book club
- Why the internet is less weird these days
- Dis-trust and blockchain technologies
- Why it's so hard to quit Big Tech
- Let's (not) let children get bored again
- The robot economy and social-emotional skills
- Weeknote 05/2019
- Dr. Doug's Wednesday surgeries
- At the end of the day, everything in life is a 'group project'
- Make art, tell a story
- Fun smartphone-based party games
- Cal Newport on the dangers of 'techno-maximalism'
- Staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing (quote)
- Weeknote 04/2019
- Through the looking-glass
- Surfacing popular Google Sheets to create simple web apps
- Federico Leggio's type animations
- Using Twitter as a lens for some thoughts on launching products
- A modest proposal for nudging young people into finding a direction in life
- Volume of work
- What did the web used to be like?
- Hong Kong shutter art
- True test of intelligence (quote)
- Hierarchies and large organisations
- Exit option democracy
- Weeknote 03/2019
- Drink Talk Learn
- Implicit leverage
- Blockchain is about trust minimisation
- Forging better habits
- A reminder of how little we understand the world
- The quixotic fools of imperialism
- Noise cancelling for cars is a no-brainer
- Going your own way (quote)
- Location data in old tweets
- Some (more) thoughts on private education
- Weeknote 02/2019
- Remembering the past through photos
- Acoustic mirrors
- Unpopular opinions on personal productivity
- Confusing tech questions
- Feeling good (quote)
- Creativity as an ongoing experiment
- Murmurations
- Fanatics (quote)
- The problem with Business schools
- Weeknote 01/2019
- Working and leading remotely
- Rules for Online Sanity
- Baseline levels of conscientiousness
- The endless Black Friday of the soul
- Blockchain bullshit
- Social mobility
- Looking back and forward in tech