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#Unsquirrel 1: Concerning Owls

February 14, 2014February 12, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

From The Natural History of Iceland (1758): The entirety of Chapter XLII, “Concerning Owls.” There are no owls of any kind in the whole island. Sometimes, we need to waste a little energy to move forward. Not everything we share MUST add value. This is a huge get over it! requirement for 80%(?) of us. The very act of sharing, of working out loud, of considering “Maybe, just maybe, someone out there in my community might find value from my knowledge, data, content” – this is the critical transition from ‘Who knows?” to “Who knew!” ←This Much We Know.→ Continue reading #Unsquirrel 1: Concerning Owls

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I Am An Artist, You Are An Artist, We Are All Of Us Artists

February 7, 2014February 7, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

Seth Godin has some great content, of course, about people picking themselves. I have written previously about the transformation I went through when I realized the means of creative production were within reach upon first using MiniDV video technology and editing on an early iMac. Embracing the technology, I was effectively picking myself: because Suddenly, I was in control, a one-man shop, a creative force! I was a child again, trying things out, self-congratulatory, experimental, churning, learning. By producing content – where before I was just full of ideas – I was making art. I was a self-proclaimed artist. Modern art … Continue reading I Am An Artist, You Are An Artist, We Are All Of Us Artists

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On Fire: The Tom Peters School Of Schooling

January 31, 2014January 30, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

On fire! I have been closely following @tom_peters recently, and he is on fire. Super direct, brusque, angry, and optimistic. My favourite twitter operative at the moment. Example rant: Why the F do you need to “scale” something? Let’s start by makin’ the damn thing so great it makes you tingle? — Tom Peters (@tom_peters) January 30, 2014 Tweet after tweet after tweet. Visceral, schooling newbies hither and thither. It is an education to read. ←This Much We Know.→ Continue reading On Fire: The Tom Peters School Of Schooling

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5 Thinkers To Follow

January 30, 2014February 4, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

Here are five great sages to read, follow, engage with around forces at play in our workplaces and society. They have driven so much of my rich learning over the last few years. Harold Jarche The clearest, most direct writer on modern day learning, taking control of our professional lives, emergent network thinking. I am lucky enough to share networks with Harold in the last year, but for several years beforehand I absorbed as much as I could from a distance. Definitely a thought leader in the practitioner world. John Hagel Deep thinking, long-term understanding of where society (especially work) … Continue reading 5 Thinkers To Follow

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The Community Manager As Maxwell’s Demon

January 15, 2014January 5, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

More from my Complexity MOOC: this time a learning from the second law of thermodynamics, about entropy. Entropy is the ‘heat’ or loss created by changing energy state in a system. It can be considered the cost of that transfer. [And apologies for any holes in my understanding. It was not real education; just a MOOC :)] The idea of entropy can be transposed to information management theory, as the unpredictability of the data. Moving data, sharing information, aligning teams and organizations all cause entropy. This is a cost to the system. The second law of thermodynamics shows entropy as a … Continue reading The Community Manager As Maxwell’s Demon

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Why Complexity, Why MOOCs? Renaissance, That’s Why

January 14, 2014January 11, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

Another short reflection on taking a MOOC on complexity from the Sante Fe Institute. I am not certain I need to know too much about biological systems, fractals, and mathematical logarithm formulas, as discussed in the MOOC, but I do need to own my journey through the ever more interconnected hivemind of work. We need each other, and we need to cultivate large, random, nuanced networks of co-conspirators. We need more data, and we need support to filter and synthesize it. We need to be anti-fragile enough to deal with complexity and constant change. From a google docs report on … Continue reading Why Complexity, Why MOOCs? Renaissance, That’s Why

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MOOC 1, University 0.

January 13, 2014January 3, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

I must be stupid. I have two degrees, yet I think education is completely overrated. I vowed after completing my Masters, ‘that’s it with studying!’ As my kids enter formal schooling, I am moving the other way – less structure, less rote, fewer rules of engagement, more serendipity, less linear, more networked, more curiosity, less right and wrong, more maybe and let’s see and who knows? The one-person university Maria Popova records Frank Lloyd Wright’s lament: “The present education system is the trampling of the herd.” Brain Pickings, she continued, “became the record of my alternative learning, of that cross-disciplinary curiosity that … Continue reading MOOC 1, University 0.

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TMWK Best Of 2013 0: Teach Me Something I Don’t Know

January 11, 2014January 3, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

Dr. Google is disguising more and more the search terms people use to get to content, so as to usurp the SEO work arounds played out on web spiders. Consequently, the search drivers that bring people to the site are more opaque. For some reason, though, Google shares with me that a common search term that arrives people here is “Teach me something I don’t know.” Indeed, this blog post is the number one link on Google for people searching that term. Most excellent. People are curious. They want to learn. They are moving out into the world under their own … Continue reading TMWK Best Of 2013 0: Teach Me Something I Don’t Know

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