Monthly Archives: September 2011

Run Your Own Race

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If you’re going to count on the competition to bring out your best work, you’ve surrendered control over your most important asset. Real achievement comes from racing ahead when no one else sees a path–and holding back when the rush isn’t going where you want to go.

If you’re dependent on competition then you’re counting on the quality of those that show up to determine how well you’ll do. Worse, you’ve signed up for a career of faux death matches as the only way to do your best work.

Source: Seth’s Blog: Run Your Own Race

The Entitlement Leads the Change

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Julia is out east at a “School CIO Summit” of some sort. She’s a bit cranky. I think she needs more glutens.

She tweeteth…

“Stop talking about Sputnik. In the 1990s, college kids brought the Internet to the business place. It has changed everything.”

I think she’s thinking of a Lawrence Lessig video I linked yesterday. Lessig added a new (to me) twist, arguing that the architechture of the Internet entitled a group of “outsiders” to change the world. By “outsiders”, Lessig was referring to the kids, dropouts, non-Americans that invented Netscape, YouTube, Hotmail, Napster, ICQ, Google, Kazaa, Skype, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter.

Because of the Internet, and the way we build it…(11:19)

Kids can take this culture and remix and share it, so they do
Kids do take this culture and remix it, so they feel they ought to
They outght to, so they feel they are entitled
This entitlement yields the change.

The Internet is our Sputnik. The difference this time around is that it’s ours. The outsiders.

Watch the full video of Lessig’s talk.

TIL: In Canada, KFC has “Toonie Tuesday” #shiftedlearning

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In today’s episode of Shifted Learning, Dean Shareski introduces “Toonie Tuesday” at KFC Canada.  Here’s how Urban Dictionary describes the phenomenon.

In Canada, KFC sells a weeks worth of leftover chicken that they’re not allowed to legally include in a meal. It normally consists of beaks and chicken feet and it costs 2 Canadian Dollars (a toonie). Usually it’s just hobos or old people who actually buy it.

Source: Urban Dictionary: toonie tuesday.