Kurt Vonnegut on writing.
“The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not. “
Source: How to Write with Style: Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Keys to the Power of the Written Word | Brain Pickings
danah boyd completely nails it.
I think we need to look for an approach to change-making that doesn’t result in brilliant people being held up as examples so that they can be tormented by power.
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It’s for the kids. Courtesy of The Onion:
“Just once, it would be nice to walk into a classroom and see a teacher who has a real, honest-to-God degree in education and not a twentysomething English graduate trying to bolster a middling GPA and a sparse law school application.”
Jason Fried of 37signals:
“Details reveal themselves as you use what you’re building. You’ll see what needs more attention. You’ll feel what’s missing. You’ll know which potholes to pave over because you’ll keep hitting them. That’s when you need to pay attention, not sooner.”
Holla.
Had coffee with Diana Laufenberg today.
“I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.”
Source: Say Anything
So I watched this TED Talk today. Don’t hate me.
It’s Clay Shirky. The title is “How the Internet Will (One Day) Transform Government“. Now you really hate me.
Go watch it. Then come back.
Thanks.
One of the burning questions in my mind over the past five years has been, “What if we had the right tools to actually do something?” Create something. Remix something. Not as individuals, but as a community.
https://twitter.com/BorowitzReport/status/250578862642171904
What if we, together built a unit? What if we took the “MOOC” and turned it? What if 200 or 2000 people designed the course for 1 student?
I think Git may be the tool I’ve been looking for. “Cooperation without coordination”. I’m seeing an interesting combination between a wiki, rss, napster, and dropbox rolled into one. Friend me. http://github.com/ijohnpederson/Shifted-Learning/
Let’s kick these tires.
This is how you kill the Internet.
“Verizon believes that it’s entitled to the same kind of control over the content that flows through its network as newspaper editors exercise over what appears in their papers. That includes the right to prioritize its own content, or those of its partners, over other Internet traffic.”