personal development
List with a Twist: my Best Learning Books in 2009?
I am always looking for the next great book to read and thought I’d tap into the collective intelligence, the annual end-of-the-calendar-year trend for lists, and the power of new tools such as Twitter to find the next great book to read. Below is some of the why, ... Read More
What if the Impossible Isn’t?
As I mentioned in my recent post “Reflective Reduction Sauce”, returning to my work universe after months at sea has led me to reflect upon some themes I encountered as a result of my attending the Learning 2009 conference. One theme I’m delighted to see more attention on is ... Read More
Time to “Tearn”?
For a number of years, I’ve been pondering how the Snowflake Effect1 could influence learning. For those who are new to this concept of the Snowflake Effect, in essence it’s about the transformation of society from a model of mass production to one of mass personalization. Think of it as ... Read More
Great Thoughts
Here's another posting derived from my ever growing list of items to blog about. This one springs from an article I read in the IEEE Spectrum back in Jan 2007. Did I mention I’m behind in my postings and the list is growing? However on the ... Read More
Finding More by Looking Less
For the past 2 weeks, I’ve noticed that I’ve been recalling a favorite metaphor many times in a great variety of conversations and communications with different people so I take this as a reminder to post a bit more about it. Many of you know my fondness for serendipity, ... Read More
Cool Translation Tools
As you may recall, I’ve been focusing on my fascination with language learning for the past few months, and I'm finding that many of you share similar interests. So I wanted to share some of the Cool Translation Tools I’ve been using to help with my language learning and usage. ... Read More
Babelfish Requires Babbling Too
For those of you who were around then, remember the arguments for Esperanto back in the 1970's? According to Wikipedia, "Esperanto is by far the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language in the world. " Developed in 1887 by Polish physician Ludovic Zamenhof, Esperanto as stated ... Read More
Update from Guatemala
Not that I’ve ever had a schedule in any typical sense of the word, but now I will have a very different one for the next month or so, and it will have some spillover effect on my writing and recording here on OCOT. I’m currently in Antigua, Guatemala ... Read More
Experts…like you and me?
In previous postings, I’ve pointed out that we're living in a world of exponential change and that this is affecting all of us in many different ways. You can find my thoughts and references on this with a quick search on exponential change on OCOT as well as my ... Read More
Cool Tools I Use: Cabinet Scraper
I truly believe that every one of us (yes, that includes YOU!) has cool tools that we use on an everyday basis and stories about how we use these tools and how we came to find and use them. I'd like to hear about yours. Meanwhile, here's another one ... Read More
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