2023
442 posts in 2023.
- Weeknote 52/2023
- TB872: Making choices about situations and systems
- TB872: Systems, situations, and systemic praxis
- TB872: Emerging worldview commonalities and clashes
- TB872: Outlining the type of change I hope to see in my situation of concern
- Best of Thought Shrapnel 2023
- TB872: You can create a map from the territory, but you can't create the territory from my map
- TB872: Meta-narrative for my systemic inquiry
- TB872: Regression and recursion
- I am so tired of moving platforms
- Weeknote 51/2023
- TB872: A web of existence of which we are only partly aware
- TB872: System-determined problems
- (Most of) my 2023 in sport
- TB872: Understanding systemic inquiry in activity model terms
- Whisky and Wisdom
- Weeknote 50/2023
- TB872: Differences between project management and systemic inquiry
- TB872: Systemic inquiry as a social technology
- TB872: Projectification and an apartheid of the emotions
- TB872: A virtuous circle of inquiry
- Weeknote 49/2023
- TB872: The role of narrative in STiP
- Weeknote 48/2023
- TB872: DAD vs EDD
- TB872: Moving into Part 2 (a systemic inquiry into systems thinking in practice)
- Back next year!
- TB872: Learning contract and preparing for first assessment
- Weeknote 47/2023
- TB872: Situations of concern, systems of interest, and PQR statements
- TB872: Communities and networks
- TB872: Critical Social Learning Systems (CSLS)
- TB872: Mapping prior experience of 'learning systems'
- TB872: Identifying elements and processes of social learning
- TB872: The people of the PFMS heuristic
- Tinkering with WordPress category archive pages
- TB872: Systems lineages
- TB872: Reflection, reflexivity, and 'practice performances'
- TB872: 'Method' vs 'Methodology'
- TB872: Relational thinking
- Avoiding the 'Dark Triads'
- The 9-5 shift is a relatively recent invention
- TB872: An inquiry into my practice for managing change with STiP
- TB872: Systemic praxis and epistemological devices
- TB872: The PFMS heuristic
- TB872: Culturally feasible change
- TB872: Systemic failure in UK governance
- TB872: Avoiding systemic failures
- TB872: Experiencing situations of change
- TB872: Types of change
- Towards an epistemology of the humanities
- More like Grammarly than Hal 9000
- Overemployment as anti-precarity strategy
- There are better approaches than just having no friends at work
- Building a system for success, without the glitches
- Is the only sustainable growth 'degrowth'?
- If you need a cheat sheet, it's not 'natural language'
- Cosplaying adulthood
- Weeknote 45/2023
- TB872: The nature of change
- You'll be hearing a lot more about nodules
- Our ancestors were using complex tools and woodworking approaches almost half a million years ago
- Pufflings can't resist the bright lights of the city
- TB872: Institutions, structures, and power
- TB872: Mapping my arrival trajectory
- TB872: creating a systems map of the module
- Co-Intelligence, GPTs, and autonomous agents
- Small sufferings
- Twitter now feels like the Brewster’s Millions of tech
- Bill Gates on why AI agents are better than Clippy
- The fragmentation of the (social) web
- AI generated images in a time of war
- TB872: first reflections, heuristics, and systems literacy
- The Societal Side-eye
- The first half of life is Tetris; the second half is Jenga
- Don't tell me that hiring isn't broken
- Accepting and trying to deal with climate as an overriding priority
- Therapy is simple
- Sitting staring at a wall for hours
- Weeknotes 43/2023 & 44/2023
- 'Restorying' your life as a hero's journey
- The real threat to manhood: remaining children
- Happiness vs GDP
- The Fediverse model can help fix the internet
- Paying to avoid ads is paying to avoid tracking
- Looking out of someone else's window
- Soul houses and false doors
- Stonehenge had nothing to do with druids
- The French Jesuit priest who surveyed Roman forts by air
- Superorganisms and solidarity
- Serious art, influencers, and AI
- Running slow and short
- Dynamic ontologies and music genres
- The social semi-permeable membrane
- Systems and interconnected disaster risks
- System innovation is driven by reshaping relationships within the system
- Tech typologisation
- Is this the end of the 'extremely online' era?
- Treating depression with hot yoga
- Why haven't you bought a Steam Deck yet?
- Zoom backgrounds with a Japanese nature retreat vibe
- The casual ableism of futurism
- Philosophy and friendship
- Laying to rest a foundational myth
- What, after all, is 'redemption'?
- The inner world as the ultimate prison
- Monetising a hobby is different to solving a difficult problem for people ready to pay
- Weeknote 42/2023
- A bit of family history
- Content-neutral sentence starters and phrases for academic writing
- AI, domination, and moral character
- Notification literacy, monk mode, and going outside for a walk
- Earning a badge in preparation for my MSc
- Microcast #102 — Rituals and Routines
- Parenting the parents
- 2024 is going to be a wild ride of AI-generated content
- The techno-feudal economy
- Modular learning and credentialing
- Handwriting, note-taking, and recall
- AI and stereotypes
- Setting up a digital executor
- In what ways does this technology increase people's agency?
- Don’t just hold back, take the time to pass it on
- Doing your job well does not entail attending more meetings
- People quit managers, not jobs
- People may let you down, but AI Tinder won't
- Weeknote 41/2023
- A steampunk Byzantium with nukes
- NFTs as skeuomorphic baby-steps?
- Where next for social media?
- Holographic depth of field
- Pre-committed defaults
- 3 bits of marriage advice
- Microcast #101 — Self-esteem, pies, and moving house
- A reward is not 'more email'
- Curiosity and infinite detail
- Well, when you put it like that...
- All aboard the U-shaped curve
- A lonely and surveilled landscape
- And so it continues...
- Billionaires shouldn't exist, even if they're philanthropists
- Nuance and depth through long(er)form reading
- AIs and alignment with human values
- Microplastics, tyres, and EVs
- Weeknote 40/2023
- Social media platforms have been reading the airlines' enshittification handbook
- On the importance of fluency in other people's love languages
- Aristotle diagnoses our current political problems
- Systems Thinking, reference management, and Open Badges
- The rolling drama of the climate crisis just got a whole lot worse
- Five kinds of friends
- Anxiety, deadness, and aggression
- Microcast #100 — Awkward Conversations
- Different levels of reading (technologies)
- Perhaps switch to another search engine?
- Climate havens
- In the long run, people can only treat you the way you let them
- More on the vagus nerve (and exercise)
- University is about more than jobs and earning power
- Intelligent failure
- Falling asleep on the couch watching films
- Yuval Noah Harari on the post-truth revolutionary right
- Weeknote 39/2023
- Microcast #99 — EVs
- Songs are not meme stocks
- Adversarial interoperability to return to a world of 'fast companies'
- Sycamore Stump
- Please consider stopping eating animals
- 'Personalisation' is something that humans do
- Migraines and 'ability'
- Seven Samurai and Open Badges
- AI generated images with subliminal messages
- No career progression on a dead planet
- On preparing, issuing, and claiming badges
- Telling stories using cartoons
- AI = surveillance
- Screens, addiction, and parenting
- Conspicuously sesquipedalian communication
- What people are really using generative AI for
- Oh great, another skills passport
- Weeknote 38/2023
- If your heart isn’t it, it’s probably because there’s no heart anywhere in the process
- A trickle, a ripple, a slow rush
- If LLMs are puppets, who's pulling the strings?
- Bad historical maps
- More treasures and secrets from ancient Egypt
- Death, wrecks, and harsh weather
- The Value of Credentials Endorsement
- Microcast #98 — Endorsement
- Virtual spaces for learning and collaboration
- The Social Media Archipelago
- This isn't working. Can we talk about that?
- Constructs, meta-constructs, and shared cognitive spaces
- Research shows people in most countries are anti-capitalist
- What's good for us is also good for the planet
- The Empty Boat
- Maybe it makes sense to talk to plants after all
- Noise and working from home
- Weeknote 37/2023
- Shrinkflation, sizes, and shaming
- Dark Tech and Project Cybersyn
- Good news on Covid treatments
- Navigating the landscape of Digital and Media Literacy
- Ducks, prompting, and LLMs
- The supermarket is a panopticon
- Microcast #097 — What do we mean by 'consensus'?
- Piracy and the art of cultural archiving
- Greatest films of all time?
- Fandom and AI generated music
- Saving the world using a 2x2 matrix
- The complexities of distraction
- Developing your niche
- Monday morning feeling
- The burnout curve
- Status detection systems
- Weeknote 36/2023
- The punishment for being authentic is becoming someone else’s content
- Job crafting, identity, and fulfilment
- AI writing detectors don’t work
- Microcast #096 — Getting back in the saddle
- The role of endorsement in Open Badges and Open Recognition
- Non-places
- TikTok's algorithm and its effect on migration
- Walking 1,000 miles across Europe
- Cooling down is hotting up
- Indigenous knowledge, sustainable design, and long-term thinking
- Some advice for readers
- Generative AI, misinformation, and content authenticity
- On the need to measure productivity
- The declining relevance of Google search
- An end to rabbit hole radicalization?
- Crypto is the biggest ponzi scheme of all time
- B Lane
- Money does not solve disasters like this
- The Atlantis of the North Sea
- Reconstructing Tenochtitlan
- Weeknote 35/2023
- Taking screenagers to the forest
- What we can learn about the climate emergency from the world's response to ozone depletion in the 1980s
- Disaster capitalism, climate change, and agriculture
- Eating the rich is optional, taxing them is mandatory
- How does doing what I need make time for everything else?
- Note taking tools and processes
- Poverty is expensive. Cash helps homeless people.
- Can you use CC licenses to restrict how people use copyrighted works in AI training?
- It's all about the DMs
- A philosophy of travel
- Using semesters for goal-setting
- The uninhabitable earth
- Don't skip the best tracks
- Weeknote 34/2023
- The world's largest climate-positive artwork provides food and nesting spots via algorithm
- AI and bullshit jobs
- We need to talk about AI porn
- Handing over ownership of exercise.cafe
- Raising the average level of creativity using AI
- CAPTCHA is an arms race we're losing against AI bots
- When it's getting too hot for plants to photosynthesize, you know we've got a problem
- Structural insecurity
- Emoji, we salute you 🫡
- Hacking the vagus nerve
- Reality and the templated life
- Temporarily Abled
- The only way to outlaw encryption is to outlaw encryption
- On 'Executive Function Theft'
- Why anxious people find it difficult to control their emotions
- Jobs, AI, and human worth
- Weeknote 33/2023
- Did people in the past look older for their age?
- Ask culture vs guess culture
- Life in 2050
- Context is everything, especially with books
- Using AI to aid with banning books is another level of dystopia
- House purchases, climate change, and AI
- Income Level 4
- AI sports recruitment
- Secret family recipes (on the side of containers)
- Quake II remaster brings online LAN gaming
- Introducing Homo naledi
- Landmark ruling in climate trial
- The tyranny of efficiency
- Calendars as data layers
- Your personal time management strategy sucks
- Giving advice online without mansplaining
- Saying "I don't know" is a privilege
- Actions speak louder than words
- Weeknote 32/2023
- Weeknote 31/2023
- Weeknote 30/2023
- Weeknote 29/2023
- The Unseen Threads of Open Recognition
- The Threads dilemma: a lesson in cooperative decision-making
- Weeknote 28/2023
- Marginally Employed
- Weeknote 27/2023
- More on AI literacy
- Weeknote 26/2023
- Weeknote 25/2023
- On the paucity of 'raising awareness'
- Weeknote 24/2023
- Open Badges and the ambiguity of recognition
- Weeknote 23/2023
- Weeknote 22/2023
- Weeknote 21/2023
- The everyday essence of creativity
- Almhouses as a way forward for social housing
- Meredith Whittaker on AI doomerism
- Playing the right game
- Using AI to help solve Bloom's Two Sigma Problem
- Weeknote 20/2023
- Time's Solitary Dance
- Bad work
- Digital wallets for verifiable credentials
- AI generated art aesthetic
- Bad coffee
- Ungrading the university experience
- Reducing website carbon emissions by blocking ads
- Doug Uses This
- Weeknote 19/2023
- Switching to Arc
- The sleight of hand of crypto
- AI writing, thinking, and human laziness
- Taxing land rather than labour
- AI and work socialisation
- Attempting to quantify the unquantifiable
- You can‘t ruminate and listen at the same time
- Arc browser is pretty nifty
- Kanban > Scrum
- Weeknote 18/2023
- Just this cold beach that nourishes you
- On co-operative dynamics
- Comportamento Geral
- #NotMyKing
- Reimagining assessment practices using AI tools
- The internet should be a place for connection, surprise, and delight
- It's time to strictly regulate vaping
- NYC 🫶 renewable energy
- Weeknote 17/2023
- Paying for participation
- Using Snapchat's 'My AI' feature for revision
- The future of collaboration is federated
- Weeknotes 15/2023 & 16/2023
- The Pennine Way, Pt.1 (Kirk Yetholm to Middleton-in-Teesdale)
- The problem with feminism is not that it has gone too far. It is that it has not gone far enough.
- The 'value' of a degree
- How to hold a 'preferendum'
- The future of AI will always be more than six months away
- An urgency to somehow bend the algorithms
- The web is fragmentary
- The patchwork progress of maturity
- Fitting LLMs to the phenomena
- Žižek on ChatGPT
- Relationships and therapy-speak
- More on why billionaires should not exist
- Negative UK growth
- The laziness of helicopter parenting
- Spaced repetition, newsletters, and book-writing
- Curiosity, projectories, and AI
- Introducing 'Empowered Networked Learning' (ENL)
- Imaginary friends for adults
- The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason
- Battles over human rights are not 'culture wars'
- The progress of AI art
- Purpose, positioning, proposition
- Lifehouses, not churches
- Weeknote 14/2023
- Weeknote 13/2023
- Reimagining hiring with Open Recognition
- Open Recognition + Critical Pedagogy = empowerment, dialogue, and inclusion
- Embracing the Full Spectrum: towards a new era of inclusive, open recognition
- Reinventing the Fortress: using Open Recognition to enhance 'standards' and 'rigour'
- The old 'chicken and egg' problem about microcredentials kind of misses the point
- Weeknote 12/2023
- Realigning Microcredentials with Open Badges
- 5 reasons why microcredentials are not Open Badges in name, spirit, or ethos
- Hiatus
- Sharepidation
- Weeknote 11/2023
- Applying my digital literacies model to 'AI literacy'
- Verifiable Credentials and Open Badges 3.0: What’s changed?
- Identifying and overcoming barriers to user research within organisations
- Climbing the Mountain of Assessment: Comparing Ungrading, Open Recognition, and RPL
- Setting Sail with Digital Literacies: Preparing Students for the Evolving Digital Landscape
- Weeknote 10/2023
- "I can't see the forest for the trees!" Microcredentials and Open Recognition
- Why Open Recognition Is the Key to Unlocking Human Potential
- RetroEmoji Challenge: a simple game created using ChatGPT
- FONT and Nonviolent Communication
- Weeknote 09/2023
- Coworking spaces should be run by cooperatives
- Wake me up when you've stopped talking about microcredentials for workforce development
- There are just bodies, just us
- Smoking as an analogy for unthinking phone use
- Living your best life
- Weeknote 08/2023
- Weeknote 07/2023
- Voodoo categorisation and dynamic ontologies in the world of OER
- Weeknote 06/2023
- The art of the zeugma
- Britain is screwed
- Synesthetic xkcd
- Bad Bard
- Buying when the market is selling
- The party's over for office-based work
- Sad Ben Affleck
- One place to rule them all?
- I'm pretty sure 'status update' meetings aren't work
- Weeknote 05/2023
- Covid and heart attacks
- Hiring people without degrees
- Reasons for not writing
- The art of Battle Royale-style video games
- Weeknote 04/2023
- Should we "resist trying to make things better" when it comes to online misinformation?
- Woke, broke, and complicated
- Cambrian governance models
- Tax and/or eat the rich
- Logging off from AI?
- Retro audio player
- Paying less attention to the attention economy
- Async work isn't just cancelling meetings
- Weeknote 03/2023
- Sixteen hours on, eight hours off.
- Getting serious
- On the economic pressures of Covid
- Weeknote 02/2023
- Facial recognition and the morality police
- U.S. Army Corps releases cat calendar
- Getting your book published in 2023
- Good writing is good writing
- Update your profile photo at least every three years
- Let's make private schools help pay for state schools
- Chameleon e-ink car
- Level 3 busy-ness
- Nick Cave's plans for 2023
- Weeknote 01/2023
- Building an iPod for 2023
- Walking around like Lionel Messi
- Spreading joy in 2023
- Preparation is everything
- This is 2023
- Hear me now!