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Monday
Jun282010

The Talent Code

The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else by Daniel Coyle

A book every teacher, learner, or anyone instructing people should read and study. Science has uncovered much on how we acquire knowledge and skill, but not near enough of the techniques and insights have been made available to learners.

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Friday
Jun252010

The Social Network

Based on Ben Mezrich’s way-too-speculative book The Accidental Billionaires, David Fincher’s The Social Network gets a Teaser Trailer. While Mezirch’s Bringing Down the House was a much better book, thanks in no small part to a less squishy foundation of “inside” accounts, Aaron Sorkin penning the script and Fincher behind the camera gives me hope that I won’t have to immediately Unfriend the flick on theater exit.

Monday
May242010

A Learning Revolution

A great talk from Sir Ken Robinson about the need for a radical change in teaching.  This is a discussion that more people, in all walks of life, should be having.  We can be better learners and need to be better teachers.

Thursday
Apr152010

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often.  Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

- Leonard Cohen

Sunday
Mar212010

Total Recall

Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything by Gordon Bell

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Interesting exploration of tech tools to capture information that represents just the beginning of culture-changing possibilities to come in computer-aided personal memory archiving.

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