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→ Luck is the residue of design Jan 28, 2016 design & highlights Luck is the residue of design. — Heard in Predestination (2015), but it appears to be a quote from Branch Rickey. The full context is worth reading: https://motivationalspeaker1.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/luck-is-the-residue-of-design/

SoundBow’s a pretty creative loop-making iPad app. Jan 20, 2016 It’s hard to imagine the kinds of sounds you can make with this, but to some degree that’s the ▵ →

TEDxOxbridge - Marc Ventresca - Don’t Be an Entrepreneur, Build Systems Jan 19, 2016 systems, social & innovation

Don’t build a start-up, become a systems entrepreneur - Social Innovation Generation Jan 18, 2016 systems, leadership, social & innovation

Tony on AcdB Jan 17, 2016 leadership

→ [T]he widely used term “strategic planning” has become debased by association with the creation of deterministic, one-sheet 5- and 10- year plans: for us this suggests an unhelpful rigidity in thinking about the future. Jan 14, 2016 highlights [T]he widely used term “strategic planning” has become debased by association with the creation of deterministic, one-sheet 5- and 10- year plans: for us this suggests an unhelpful rigidity in thinking about the future.

— Dyson, Bryant, Morecroft, and O’Brien: <em>The Strategic Development Process</em>“.

The Slack Platform Launch Dec 16, 2015

slackhq: We live in an exciting time for work. Instead of three or four big vendors providing end-to-end software suites, we have a variety ▵ →

→ Your generation will set goals for what you want to become – like an engineer, health worker, writer or community leader. Dec 2, 2015 education & highlights

Your generation will set goals for what you want to become – like an engineer, health worker, writer or community leader. You’ll have technology that understands how you learn best and where you need to focus. You’ll advance quickly in subjects that interest you most, and get as much help as you need in your most challenging areas. You’ll explore topics that aren’t even offered in schools today. Your teachers will also have better tools and data to help you achieve your goals.

Even better, students around the world will be able to use personalized learning tools over the internet, even if they don’t live near good schools. Of course it will take more than technology to give everyone a fair start in life, but personalized learning can be one scalable way to give all children a better education and more equal opportunity.

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It’ll be a while before they can read it, but the newborn Chan Zuckerberg child seems to be in pretty great hands.

Also: it’s worth pairing this optimistic worldview with Umair Haque’s critique of it.

iPad Pro has an App Store problem Nov 20, 2015

Editorial Training | NPR Nov 6, 2015 journalism

A great pig like that… Nov 4, 2015 A few simple searches failed to turn up one of my favourite jokes (heard frequently on the earlier episodes of Back to Work with Merlin Mann and Dan ▵ →

The university of the 21st century has three roles: to create knowledge, to share that knowledge, and to use and apply it. Nov 3, 2015 education & learning — ▵ →

The digital economy doesn’t solve everything. Nov 2, 2015 social, public & learning There’s no social infrastructure to care for the workers of this new digital ▵ →

→ Neuroscientists decode the brain activity of the worm Nov 2, 2015 highlights

Tyro: a beginner or novice. Nov 1, 2015 — ▵ →

Research that is simply beyond belief Nov 1, 2015 futures

neurosciencestuff: New research involving a psychologist from the University of York has revealed for the first time that both belief in God and ▵ →

→ A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value Oct 31, 2015 highlights A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value. — Not sure of the source! Heard in a workshop on the business model canvas.

Millions of worlds. Billions of cultures. Quadrillions of people. Decillions of interrelationships. And you want me to reduce it to order. Oct 30, 2015 systems & futures “Millions of worlds. Billions of cultures. Quadrillions of people. Decillions of interrelationships. And you want me to reduce it to order.” “No, I ▵ →

→ Such ideas can be ingenious, but they all suffer from the vanity of trying to impose a technological solution on what is a problem of poverty Oct 30, 2015 Tech & highlights Such ideas can be ingenious, but they all suffer from the vanity of trying to impose a technological solution on what is a problem of poverty. — Jason Pontin, Why We Can’t Solve Big Problems.

In all, NASA spent $24 billion, or about $180 billion in today’s dollars, on Apollo; at its peak in the mid-1960s, the agency enjoyed more than 4 percent of the federal budget. Oct 29, 2015 In all, NASA spent $24 billion, or about $180 billion in today’s dollars, on Apollo; at its peak in the mid-1960s, the agency enjoyed more than 4 ▵ →