congratulations: you are lost

November 30, 2018

Pause for a second.

Now scan the canon of your past. Now reflect: How has everything that has happened in your life led you to this precise moment in time?

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November 29, 2018

The biggest learning platform on the planet?

On my mind this morning is learning in a connected world and where e-learning 3.0 is going. One of the largest learning platforms in the world, of course, is Youtube. As a self-directed learning platform it is huge. It turns out Youtube is not just for watching cat videos! Source...

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November 22, 2018

I think I broke my brain

I have a renewed interest in nootropics, the so-called smart drugs for cognitive enhancement. I spoke to my good friend JJ who is kind of a geek about these things.

#nootropics #smartdrugs

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November 16, 2018

The happiness pill

‪I’ve been exploring this week the various angles we use to wiggle our way into happiness and try to create a system that makes happiness a constant instead of the variable that it is. ‬

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November 15, 2018

Getting back into the game

In anticipation of the video-making I’ll be doing in the near future with my learning design work, I thought I’d best brush off my video editing skills. I don’t make as many videos these days, just the occasional one or two. But now I’m anticipating a lot of video work coming...

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November 6, 2018

Finding the sweet spot

The general advice is to find your passion and do that for a living. But you need to add a little bit more to the equation. Find the intersection of these three things: Things you are good at Things you love to do Things people will pay you to do...

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November 4, 2018

Whenever I feel stuck

One of my favorite tools to use when I’m feeling stuck and unable to make a decision about something, I turn to Robert Dilt’s Logical Levels. I also use it as a coaching tool. Sometimes I even write out the levels on 5×8 cards and lay them on the floor and...

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November 3, 2018

They don’t want you to take the test

Nir Eyal posted this on Medium: How to achieve your goals by creating an enemy. I was going to flick on by it, but I didn’t. I wanted to see what he had to say about enemies. I know a thing or two about enemies, and in my experience, it’s...

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November 2, 2018

Emotions

This week, I’ve been working on a piece of self-paced e-learning for parents of children with special needs with my good friend Aimee Mann of Aimee Mann Mentoring. The e-course is called Getting Your Voice Heard. It’s a workshop she runs in physical space and is now converting it into...

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November 1, 2018

Dopamine tastes good

“I wish the real world would stop hassling me.” – Matchbox Twenty Ok, here’s goes the start of my 30-day blogging challenge. Why? For no reason other than wanting to start daily blogging again. I miss it as a platform for keeping up with myself. Like the old days. Plus I was inspired...

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October 11, 2018

as the wheel turns

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve destroyed this site in order to rebuild it. Reminds of the Good Place season 2, when has to keep resetting his personal block of Hell trying to get the main characters to stop discovering that they are, in fact, in Hell, not...

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October 3, 2018

Mom’s Amusement

imagine the slow-released madness placed under the tongue my friend and I have a bet that his face is too tight under his skin, a pale ghost milked by his masters to prolong life in the dark place where it’s too hard to see tomorrow, by now she could see...

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September 23, 2018

broken sun

a drop of blood in the stars divides the blue against the broken sun, the fiery light passes from hand to hand, gnawing on our bones in a corner of heaven

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