Heart | Soul | MachineI’ve written about hierarchy a few times and often relate it back to being the default structure. The reason I believe this is because it’s a simple structure. It’s something that can be deployed quickly, works fairly efficiently and it’s something that can be established and refined as you go along. It’s a “good enough” […]
Wow. 2022 was some year! It started with a bang, a crash and lots of swearing as my team and I raced to push out our first fully online undergraduate courses. There was also time to hang out with friends in Victor Harbour, although we’re still waiting for the weather to be good when we’re […]
I stumbled into Twitter at a unique moment in my career. I’d lived overseas, returned to my small home town and switched careers. I was a couple of years into working in educational technology, and I was at my first tech conference in the US. Twitter had been around, but I wasn’t on it. I […]
The shitstorm that is Elon Musk has hit Twitter. The village idiot got drunk in the town square and started hurling curses and abuse at everyone there. He’s now wondering why everyone is packing up to leave, while he proceeds to turf people out himself and smash everything in sight. Everything that was built in […]
Before I get into making new tools I want to go through what I’ve done so far. There’s a line between each of these areas of work below that has shaped my current thinking and where I am today, and each of these previous projects has informed my thining as well as given me valuable […]
Learning Design is a relatively new field. I’m not sure if it’s a discipline, or even if its defined as profession just yet. There are certainly aspects of it being both a discipline and a profession, but there is one clear thing missing — tools. Having spent years working adjacent to the design of learning, […]
As we head into the 2022 election I have some real concerns about the lack of leadership has in Australian politics. Let’s start with some basic definitions about what “leadership” is. For starters leadership is a characteristic that sits outside of a hierarchy. It is a quality, not is it a role. And it’s for […]
I’m not sure what kind of mindset drives someone to troll dystopian sci-fi for your “next big thing”, but it seems to be a big in Silicon Valley. It’s from one of these unheeded fables that Zuckerberg’s Metaverse emerges. Rather than try and fool a population and lull them into a false sense of safety […]
“I feel called on to “lead”, even as I am not sure what to think.” On return to campus planning, this beautiful writing speaks to the challenge of leading in fog. https://twitter.com/brlamb/status/1448448092190109697@katemfd This week was a big one. I’ve been so focussed on recruiting and developing the team, getting work practices established and building momentum […]
I had this thought the other day – when was the last new social system developed? Sure we’ve seen plenty of technological systems come and go, but what about those that affect how we live, and perhaps more importantly live together? The bulk of our social systems came about in the post-war era, obviously required […]
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