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flipped into For You
A very simple rule
austinkleon.com - Austin Kleon
A letter to Emerson’s daughter, excerpted in my new one, Keep Going I have a very simple rule that serves me well: Don’t think too much about your life …
Aug 27, 2018
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flipped into Rethinking Learning & Education
Marc Prensky: An Academic Education is No Longer Enough
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Nov 22, 2017
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flipped into Design Thinking
10 inspiring examples of design-led brands – Econsultancy
econsultancy.com - By Ben Davis & Lizzy Hillier
Brands that employ design thinking are perhaps easier to spot than they used to be. That’s because we interact with many fast-growing digital …
May 7
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flipped into Design Thinking
Design thinking, explained | MIT Sloan
mit.edu
Design thinking is an innovative problem-solving process rooted in a set of skills.The approach has been around for decades, but it only started …
Sep 14, 2017
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flipped into Company Culture
The 8 Types of Company Culture
Harvard Business Review
Watch the latest explainer videos, case study discussions, and whiteboard sessions, featuring ideas and practical advice for leaders.
Dec 18, 2017
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flipped into Rethinking Learning & Education
Why all classrooms need #DesignThinking
eduwells.com - Richard Wells
“Miss … is this good enough?” – Every student … ever! Grading in schools, be it for qualifications, individual works, or standardised tests, has …
Dec 9, 2017
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flipped into Design Thinking
Why Higher Education Needs Design Thinking
Fast Company - Doreen Lorenzo
Research professor Kate Canales believes design is crucial to disrupting higher education, and the timing has never been better. Doreen Lorenzo: How did you end up where you are today? Did you go directly
Dec 7, 2016
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flipped into Rethinking Learning & Education
6 Problems with our School System
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Dec 15, 2016
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flipped into Design Thinking
How using Design Thinking will fix Design Thinking
TNW - Bert Brautigam
Design Thinking continues to be a hot topic (this article is one of many talking about it). Design Thinking has been hyped and even fetishized but there are also voices questioning its value, impact, relevance.
Apr 27, 2017
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flipped into Rethinking Learning & Education
Resources not courses: What does it really mean? 8 tips to create better resources
elucidat.com
We know that people forget what they “learn,” that content needs to be short and focused to engage our audiences, and that 52% of people learn for …
Mar 29, 2017
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flipped into B Curious
Philosophy
Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding
Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova
“Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed.” “An experience makes its appearance only when it is being
Apr 5, 2017
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flipped into Design Thinking
What is Design Thinking (2015)
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Oct 9, 2015
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flipped into B Curious
Art
The Invention of Empathy: Rilke, Rodin, and the Art of “Inseeing”
Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova
How a doctor, a philosopher, a poet, and a sculptor co-created the modern concept of empathy. Empathy, an orientation of spirit decidedly different from sympathy, has become central to our moral universe.
Dec 14, 2016
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flipped into StorySelling
Storytelling
The Psychology of What Makes a Great Story
Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova
“The great writer’s gift to a reader is to make him a better writer.” “Stories,” Neil Gaiman asserted in his wonderful lecture on what makes stories last, “are genuinely symbiotic organisms that we live
Jan 20, 2016
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flipped into For You
Quilting
100 Blocks a Day
waitbutwhy.com - Tim Urban
Most people sleep about seven or eight hours a night. That leaves 16 or 17 hours awake each day. Or about 1,000 minutes.Let’s think about those 1,000 …
Oct 22, 2016
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flipped into For You
Just don’t lose the magic
austinkleon.com - Austin Kleon
“We cannot have a meaningful revolution without humor.” —bell hooksIn a terrific piece about his writing education, George Saunders talks about …
Jun 28, 2016
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flipped into For You
Before You Blow Up Your Life, Do This.
jonathanfields.com
There is a huge desire, once we sense we’re not doing the thing we’re here to do, to want to run from our current reality. Even if it’s what is …
Feb 21, 2016
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flipped into Knowledge Management
Stop Crashing Planes: Charlie Munger’s Six-Element System
farnamstreetblog.com - Farnam Street Team
Before we get to Charlie Munger, let’s chat for a minute.We’ve been noticing a problem lately that you might be familiar with or experiencing …
Apr 26, 2016
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flipped into Company Culture
Twitter Media
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Dec 7, 2015
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flipped into Knowledge Management
Knowledge Makes Everything Simpler
farnamstreetblog.com - Farnam Street Team
Operating a screw is pretty simple as John Maeda points out in The Laws of Simplicity:Just mate the grooves atop the screw’s head to the appropriate …
Dec 7, 2015
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flipped into Knowledge Management
Lima
A visual history of human knowledge
ted.com - Manuel Lima
How does knowledge grow? Sometimes it begins with one insight and grows into many branches; other times it grows as a complex and interconnected …
Aug 18, 2015
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flipped into The Power of Visualization
Picking The Right Visualization For Your Data
silk.co - Alex Salkever
At Silk we spend a lot of time thinking about how to teach our users about data visualizations. We are by no means experts in data visualization on …
May 28, 2015
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flipped into Assumptions and Illusions
Focusing Illusions
farnamstreetblog.com - Shane Parrish
My favorite chapter in the book Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher is called ‘Decisions: Focusing Illusions.’ It’s a really …
Sep 16, 2015
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flipped into Knowledge Management
The Two Types of Knowledge
farnamstreetblog.com - Shane Parrish
In The Art of Thinking Clearly, Rolf Dobelli tells the following story about Max Planck.After receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918, Max …
Sep 9, 2015
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flipped into Value and purpose
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Sep 6, 2015
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flipped into Storytelling
Storytelling: a simple how to that will improve your business — Atelier Pan
atelierpan.nl
By Simon Droog — a Dutch self-taught brand and graphic designer Last week I was out for a run in the sun here in Barcelona. The sun was shining and …
Aug 24, 2015
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flipped into Knowledge Management
Account Suspended
k3cubed.co.uk
Aug 25, 2015
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flipped into The value of fun, play and happiness
Leisure, the Basis of Culture: An Obscure German Philosopher’s Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in
Brain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova
“Leisure lives on affirmation. It is not the same as the absence of activity … or even as an inner quiet. It is rather like the stillness in the conversation of lovers, which is fed by their oneness.”
Aug 10, 2015