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What's a MOOC?
I was asked this week: “what’s a MOOC?” by someone who probably should have known by now what a MOOC is. As a professional, I refrained from this behaviour: If you’re after a description, a look at...
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Listening to https soundcloud com tags balearic I…
Listening to https://soundcloud.com/tags/balearic – I wouldn’t suggest following my music taste, but do try SoundCloud if you’re open to eclectic and new sounds.
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How to work with difficult people
In Richard Sennett’s new book ’Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation‘, he explores the history of cooperation and posits that most tactics that we commonly use are actually...
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Technical Debts are often best tackled by paying…
[Technical] Debts are often best tackled by paying off the principal lump sum. In the case of “technical debt”, Mr Lesokhin believes this involves committing resources to work out which parts of banks’...
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Emoticon-A-Day Calendar lets you capture your mood
Catalogue each day with an emoticon This Emoticon-A-Day Calendar Lets You Creatively Catalog Your Mood | via Co.Design: business + innovation + design. I wonder whether this, or a version of this,...
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Running and podcasts and the personal MBA
Recently I’ve started running. (First proper exercise in about 20 years!) Its only every other day and I’m doing very simple and gentle stuff. It’s actually a lot easier than I thought and the recent...
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Remember when ebooks were rubbish?
Ray Kurzweil: Online education is where we were in ebooks 4 years ago – people saying they still want printed books, that the ebook reading experience isn’t very good… Well, today most books are...
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A temp fix for the wordpress.com dns mapping infinite redirect loop problem
Yesterday evening, I had a problem with domain mapping on a new wordpress.com site. Originally spelt out here: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/domain-mapping-redirect-loop Please could you check...
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The Eisenhower Decision Matrix: How to Distinguish Between Urgent and...
The Eisenhower Decision Matrix: How to Distinguish Between Urgent and Important Tasks | The Art of Manliness. Thanks to Nick for suggesting this article to me. I like the idea, I enjoyed reading the...
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Beethoven’s Surprisingly Simple Habit for Creative Breakthroughs
Beethoven’s Surprisingly Simple Habit for Creative Breakthroughs. Creativity does not rest on eureka moments — it is a process, designed to consistently bring abstract ideas into the tangible world.
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Tracks: BBC radio drama
Thanks to Tim for the tip on this excellent audio drama which kept me company, and occasionally shocked me, on a long solo drive to Devon and back. When a plane crashes in west Wales, a dark mystery...
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Family calendar – paper version
An annual ritual at this time in our house is the printing of the family calendar. This is a homegrown solution as I couldn’t find a simple version for sale. The versions in the shops are very...
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