where to start - some suggested reads

Find in the following slides
some attribution/reasons /evidences, though ever so lacking, why…

Power of Pull, p. 208, quote from Agassi

1) is teaching me to…

2) I’m constantly reading/listening .
check out some of my favorites…

if you’re so inclined…

Clicking on any book cover should take you to Amazon or some other review.
Order of #’s only for reference.

1. Linchpin, Seth Godin: awakening indispensable people
2. Mindset, Carol Dweck: growth mindset considers everything as a means to learn/grow
3. Rework, Jason Fried: work is where we get the least done
4. The Element, Sir Ken Robinson: finding your sweet spot
5. The Art of Possibility, Ben & Rosalund Zander:
6. Tribes, Seth Godin:
7. Teaching Unmasked, John T. Spencer: transparency/authenticity
8. The Design of Business, Roger Martin: be bold
9. DIY U, Anya Kamenetz: yes you can
10. Disrupting Class, Clay Christensen: plan of disruption
11. The Blue Sweater, Jacqueline Novogratz: getting to know a culture
12. The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle: deep practice to grow/strengthen myelin sheath
13. Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar, James Bach: self-directed learning
14. Your Guide to Academic Deviance, Dale Stephens: uncollege
15. The Mesh, Lisa Gansky: the future of business is sharing
16. The Power of Pull, John Hagel & John Seely Brown: the power of allure vs the power of demand
17. A New Culture of Learning, John Seely Brown: imagination and play
18. Wounded by School, Kirsten Olson: ridiculous to let this go on
19. Cognitive Surplus, Clay Shirky: tech + generosity, all we need we can find in each other
20. Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky: new thinking about how things happen
21. Reality is Broken, Jane McGonigal: bring the best of a good game into daily life – participate wholeheartedly
22. The Big Picture, Ed is Everyone’s Business, Dennis Littky: the Met, going 11 years strong
23. Mindfulness, Ellen Langer: focus on outcome creates mindlessness, prejudice decreases as discrimination increases
24. What Tech Wants, Kevin Kelly: tech want s to free us up to be us, wants to connect us
25. Playful World (& blog: The Human Network), Mark Pesce:
26. The Meaning of It All, Richard Feynman
27. The New Brain, Richard Restak
28. Poke the Box, Seth Godin (written for the Domino Project)
29. Do the Work, Steven Pressfield (written for the Domino Project)
30. The War of Art, Steven Pressfield- maybe start here… and read it between each book
31. Unschooling Rules, Clark Aldrich – then here…
32. Democratic Education, Yaacov Hecht – or here…
33. John Dewey’s How We Think – holy cow or here…
34. Education & the Significance of Life, Jiddu Krishnamurti – totally here.. would love permission to rewrite this
35. Knowing Knowledge, George Siemens – reading it now, wish I had a hard copy
36. Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken – Will Richardson recommend (cont next slide…)

These below are where we’re focusing fall 2011
37. At Work with Thomas Edison, Blaine McCormick – explains the culture we are trying to build at the be you house.
38. Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich – succinctly describes why we need to respectfully question how we spend our days
39. Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich – continuation of 38, spells out how mindless we have become
40. Peripheral Visions, Mary Catherin Bateson – learning along the way
41. We Are All Weird, Seth Godin – the new normal, the myth of the mass and the end of compliance
42. Program or Be Programmed, Douglas Rushkoff –
43. Uncertainty, Jonathan Fields – turning fear and doubt into fuel for brilliance
44. Now You See It, Cathy Davidson – getting outside of your own mind, so your not missing things that matter
45. Walk Out, Walk On, Margaret Wheatley – global mesh, global be you
46. Orbiting the Giant Hairball - fostering creative genius
47. Start With Why, Simon Sinek – why builds a culture rather than relying on controls
48. Quiet, Susan Cain - the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking
49. One Page at a Time, Phill Pappas, getting through college with adhd, but good on so many other levels..
50. The Innovative University, Clayton christesen
51. Betterness, Umair Haque, economics for humans
52. Finding the Sweet Spot, Dave Pollard
53. Stop Killing Dreams, Seth Godin, what are schools for
54. Net Smart, Howard Rheingold, how to trhive online
55. For the Love of Cities, Peter Kageyama, great focus for enlivening a city, great insight
56. Child in the Country, Colin Ward, Ward makes you notice things that matter
57. Death and Life of the Great American School, Diane Ravitch, unsettling
58. The Triumph of the City, Edward Glaeser, great insight on urban vs rural – which is greener, unsettling on schools
59. Smart Mobs, Howard Rheingold, on using tech to make a better us, doing more together
60. Business Innovation Factory Model, Saul Kaplan, connected adjacency, the need for unlikely suspects mingling in the gray
61. In the Bubble, John Thackara, design that matters
62. Dare, Dream, Do, Whitney Johnson
63. The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Dan Millan – here and now.
64. Resumes are Dead, Norton Richie, more important that 4.0 or 2.0, did you notice the gorilla
65. Speed of Trust, Stephen M.R. Covey, the one thing that changes everything
66. Strategy, Leadership and the Soul, Jennifer Sertl, change that comes from the soul, because of the soul
67. Theory U, Otto Scharmer, oh my..all of what we’re doing
68. The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
69. Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars, Patrick Lencioni
70. Honest Signals, Alex (Sandy) Pentland, how they shape us

71. Leap of Faith, Memoirs of an Unexpected Life, Queen Noor, how communication changes everything
72. 40 Alternatives to College, James Altucher
73. The Intention Economy, Doc Searls, ch 21 ff – our quiet revolution in public ed
74. Miss, Sir, Are You Mad?, Shirley Knotte, age 11
75. The Start Up of You, Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha - rather than waiting for innovations to scale, let’s scale you
76. Better Than College, Blake Boles – we do have options
77. Be the Solution, Michael Strong & John Mackey – start up of you
78. One Size Does Not Fit All – A Student’s Assessment of School – listen deeply to student voice
79. Start Up Communities – Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City, Brad Feld – start up of city
80. Blah, Blah, Blah – What to Do When Words Don’t Work, Dan Roam – 75% of our sensory is visual – how to put form on flighty thinking
81. Too Big To Know, David Weinberger – difference between pyramid and network – foundation
82. Being Wrong, Kathryn Schulz –
83. The Innovative University, Clay Christensen, Henry Eyring
84. Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner
85. How We Decide, Jonah Lehrer
86. Imagine: How Creativity Works, Jonah Lehrer
87. Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Tech Civilization, Parag & Ayesha Khanna, - TED book
88. Hold on to Your Kids, Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Mate – attachment & authenticity
89. A New Earth, Eckart Tolle – how do you know you’re doing what you’re supposed to, because you are
90. Beyond the Hole in the Wall, Sugata Mitra; Nicholas Negropante – self-organized learning
91. Free-Range Kids, How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children, Lenore Skenazy
92. Make Your Idea Matter, Bernadetter Jiwa
93. Mind Amplifier, Howard Rheingold
94. Search Inside Yourself, Chade-Meng Tan – google guru
95. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, Austin Kleon
96. Turning Pro, Steven Pressfield
97. Unschooling, Astra Taylor
98. Why School, Will Richardson, TED
99. 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era, Nilofer Merchant
100. Icarus Deception, Seth Godin – most rational thing to do, irrational art

Everyone has a little
voice inside of their
head that’s angry and
afraid.
That voice is the
resistance –

your
lizard brain

and it wants you
to be
average
and
safe.

-Linchpin

Where do you
put the fear?

What separates a
linchpin from an
ordinary person
is the answer to
this question.

Most of us feel
the fear and
react to it. We
stop doing what
is making us
afraid. Then the
fear goes away.

click to play
-Linchpin

Are we
taking
time
to
unlock
the
genius
in
ourselves. ..

in each one of us…?
-Seth Godin’s Linchpin

Great insight on Nurturing Student Genius from the brilliant Angela Maiers.

Linchpins are able to
embrace the lack of
structure, and find a new
path, one that works.

We spend our time and
energy trying to perfect our
craft, but we don’t focus on
the skills and interactions
that will allow us to stand
out and become
indispensable.

Emotional labor is the work
most of us are suited to do.
It may be exhausting, but it’s
valuable.
click to play
-Linchpin

The linchpin feels
the fear,
acknowledges it,
then proceeds,
this is a
prerequisite for
success.

Art is the product
of emotional
labor. If it’s easy
and risk free. It’s
unlikely that it’s
art.

-Linchpin
click to play

The competitive advantage:
someone more human,
connected,
mature.
Someone with passion,
energy, ..
flexible in the face of
change,
resilient in the face of
confusion.

All of these attributes are
choices,
not talents,
and all of them
are available
to
you.
click to play

-Linchpin

Passion is
caring
enough
about your
art that you
will do almost
anything to
give it away,
to make it a
gift, to
change
people.

-Linchpin
click to play

Maturity, soul,
personal strength,
and doing it for the
right reasons.

Don’t wait for
instructions, figure
out what to do
next.

Stop asking what’s
in it for you and
start giving gifts
that change
people.

-Linchpin click for a green message about people
being answered as @ahumanright does the impossible

Dweck speaking on growth vs fixed mindset.

Every word and action can send a message. It tells children, or students, or
athletes – how to think about themselves.

It can be a fixed-mindset message that says:
You have permanent traits and I’m judging them.

Or it can be a growth-mindset message that says:
You are a developing person and I am interested in your development.

-Carol Dweck, Mindset

mindset

Teach (model how) to:

love challenges
be intrigued by mistakes
enjoy effort
and
keep on learning.


mindset

Speed and perfection are the enemy of difficult learning:
If you think I’m smart when I’m fast and perfect, I’d better not take on anything
challenging.

So what should we say when things are completed quickly and perfectly?
Whoops, I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let’s do
something you can really learn from.

Reassuring someone about their intelligence or talent before a performance
often backfires. They’ll be more afraid to show a deficiency.


mindset

The great teachers believe in the growth of the intellect and talent, and they
are fascinated with the process of learning.

ie:
In contrast, Yura Lee’s mother always sat serenely during Yura’s lesson, without
the tension and frantic note taking of some of the other parents. She smiled, she
swayed to the music, she enjoyed herself. As a result, Yura did not develop the
anxieties and insecurities that children with overinvested, judgmental parents do.
Says Yura, “I’m always happy when I play.”


mindset

I don’t know
everything.
I can learn
all the time.

Most often
people believe
that the “gift“
is the ability itself.
Yet what feeds it is that
constant
curiosity
and
challenge seeking.
click to play

mindset

Successful people are successful
for one reason…
they think about failure
differently.

You become a winner because
you’re good at losing.

The hard part about losing is that
you might permit it to give
strength to the resistance,
that you might believe that you
don’t deserve to win,
that you might in some dark
corner of your soul, give up.
click to play
Don’t.

-Linchpin

What, I messed up? It didn’t work? They didn’t like it?

…what can I learn from that?
usefully ignorant

Carol Dweck - growth Mindset

Erica McWilliams: be usefully igornant

Sugata Mitra’s success –
provide resources and get
out of the way for 3 months

we don’t need more
resources - just need to be
more resourceful
Alan Webber (fast
company)

resources like… Sugata Mitra’s
http://kerismith.com/
usefully ignorant

the Granny Cloud – unlikely
places

Richard Saul Wurman
embrace your stupidity ---read/seen that article? – uh huh.. we do that… how many kids do that….
prestige in knowing things... ironically blocks learning about things that matter

The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People
In order to be open to
creativity, one must have the
capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. Rollo May

Get
in
the
alone
zone.

Interruption
is not
collaboration.
more on be
-Rework

There’s a new
reality.

Tools that used to
be out of reach are
now easily
accessible.
Technology that
cost thousands is
now just a few
bucks or even free.

Stuff that was
impossible just a
few years ago is
simple today.

-Rework

click to read: How to do What You Love,Paul Graham

Constraints are
advantages in
disguise.

Limited resources
force you to make
do with what
you’ve got.

There’s no room
for waste.

And that forces
you to be creative.
click to play

-Rework

You have to
believe in
something.
You need
to have
backbone.
You need
to know
what
you’re
willing to
fight for.

-Rework

Of course you
can do
something that
matters.
The question
is…

do you want
to?

-Rework

click to play

minimalism – 15 things I own
Make/do
something
that you want
to make/do.

You’ll know
the problem
and the value
of it’s solution
intimately.
Revolution Southward
There’s no
substitute for
that.

-Rework

When
something
becomes
too
polished,
it loses
its
soul.

Show the latest version of what you’re
working on, even if you’re not done yet.
You might not seem as professional,
but you will seem a lot more
genuine.

-Rework

Robinson at TED on how schools kill creativity.

4.
RSA Animate: Changing Ed Pardigms

click to play RSA Animate: Changing Ed Pardigms

also: Robinson at TED on how schools kill creativity.

Zander at TED on the Art of Possibility

5.

The
benefit to
the artist is
that you
changed in
some way,

not that
you will
repay him.

-Linchpin

click to play

6.
Godin on the tribes we lead, TED

-John T Spencer, Teaching Unmasked

Erica McWilliams on being usefully ignorant

College admission drives us… and we don’t question any of it because it’s
the American Dream. .. it also leaves us with an incredible debt.
Anya’s book and site provide incredible insight and resources.

9.

Click above to find some of Anya’s talks, as she suggests the future of
higher ed is about content, socialization, and accreditation.

There are too many
students
making career-based
decisions
on too little
information.

options

11. How to listen/learn from any culture.. vs thinking you are going to help.

We could even monitor growth by asking, how do you practice…
Deep practice builds/strengthens myelin sheath. -Daniel Coyle

12.

Thank you Barnes and Noble for your support

from Buccaneer Scholar, James Bach
Let learners appear to be lazy, as they freely find their own
structure. Be next to them, doing your thing, on call.

James Bach visits the lab.

It’s the stuff you leave out that
matters. So constantly look for
things to remove, simplify and
streamline. Be a curator. 80

When things aren’t working, the
natural inclination is to throw more
at the problem. More people, time
and money. All that ends up doing is
making the problem bigger.
Instead.. Cut back.

-Rework

Seth Godin on procrastination & daydreaming

You should
feel an
urgency
about this
too.

You don’t
have forever.

-Linchpin

It’s easy to put your head down and just work on what you think needs to be done.
It’s a lot harder to pull your head up and ask

.

Why are you doing this?
Cool wears off.
Useful never does.

-Rework

Create an environment that maximizes the likelihood that each child will
discover their own passion and resources
and feel ownership of their own education.
You are not a delivery system for "skills" although skill growth will happen.
You're trying to be a good launch pad for healthy citizens,
not a manufacturing center for citizens.

It’s not skills but self possession that are key

with self-possession,
all other things become
possible
-James Bach

You don’t need
an MBA, a
certificate, a
fancy suit, a
briefcase, or an
above-average
tolerance for
risk.

You just need
an idea, a touch
of confidence,
and a push to
get started .

-Rework

Negative reactions are almost always louder and more
passionate than positive ones.

You may hear only negative voices even when the
majority like what you’re doing.

And when you do, you add to the rich pool of…
adjacent possibilities.

brilliant read.

14.
Also read his : the opportunity cost of class

brilliant read….
Also read his : the opportunity cost of class

Lisa Gansky, the future … is sharing. .

15.

John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, Lang Davison

Pull platforms emphasize outputs more than
specific inputs. Rather than prescribing what an
individual needs, respect the diversity and
distinctive goals of each individual and seeks to
help individuals access and attract the most
useful and relevant resources.
This approach provides every individual with the
degree of freedom they need to engage in the
problem solving, tinkering, and experimentation
that drives innovation in all dimensions of
activity.

p. 208: I breathe differently

16.

tacit knowledge

in your head…tied to certain contexts…often quite new…
…great difficulty expressing to ourselves much less anyone
else …usually holistic …usually not reducible to abstract
categories & isolated modules… does not flow very well…
remarkably sticky.
Most valuable knowledge but also most difficult to share
-John Hagel & John Seely Brown

tacit knowledge

Help learners create ways to expose their
Perhaps a dimensionality in our conversations we've not yet experienced. one where we
not only come together per passion, but also in grace and deep respect. one where more
can be said, because in our new found security of intimate community, we spend less
time with defense. ( http://pds8.egloos.com/pds/200... ) so more can be understood. one
where less needs to be said, because more is understood. (
http://www.ascd.org/publicatio... )
More of that convo here.

I can’t articulate
what I do.
When I talk, people
notice things more.

- Simon Tyler

-prodding by the
brilliant Nic Askew

click to view

Help them to reside in passion and flow

knowledge

passion
of the explorer – a sustained commitment to exploring a
particular domain and to achieving constantly increasing
levels of performance and impact in that domain over time..
-John Hagel lll & John Seely Brown

the neurobiology of passion

wisdom
ability to draw out optimal value from people,
shaped by a deep understanding of existing
performance capabilities – both one’s own and those
of others. -John Hagel lll & John Seely Brown

understanding understanding

wisdom accepts and operates within existing
performance limits
passion continually seeks to challenge and go
beyond existing limits -John Hagel lll & John Seely Brown

the neurobiology of passion

John Hagel’s post/review on

John Seely Brown
And
Douglas Thomas’s book

17.

A free form curriculum..
how this fits the Lab

click to learn more

''A brilliant, original, and important book.
Wounded by School makes an eloquent and
moving case for the radical re-invention of our
schools.''
-- Tony Wagner, author of The Global
Achievement Gap and Co-Director of the Change
Leadership Group (CLG)

''Kirsten Olson's book is refreshingly unlike the
general run of sludge I associate with writing
about pedagogy: It seems to be entirely free of
the familiar platitudes which replace thought
when we read about school matters, is scrubbed
clean of pretentious jargon, and offers up the
twists and turns of Olson's analysis and citations
with beautiful clarity. I can't imagine anyone not
being better for reading this book Twice!'' --John
Taylor Gatto, Author, Dumbing Us Down

18.

When teenage girls can help organize events
that unnerve national governments, without
needing professional organization or
organizers to get the ball rolling, we are in
new territory. As Mimi Ito describes the
protesters,

Their participation in the protests was
grounded less in the concrete conditions of
their everyday lives, and more in their
solidarity with a shared media fandom…
Although so much of what kids are
doing online may look trivial and
frivolous, what they are doing is
building the capacity to connect, to
communicate, and ultimately, to
mobilize.
.. What’s distinctive about this historical
moment and today’s rising generation is not
only a distinct form of media expression, but
how this expression is tied to social action.
19.

click here to hear Clay discuss book

People asking
Where do
people find the
time?
aren’t usually
looking for the
answer; the
question is
rhetorical and
indicates that
the speaker
thinks certain
activities are
stupid.

2003: South Korea bans American beef imports – mad cows disease.
2008: Korean President Lee Myung-bak lifts ban.

Korean citizens stage Korea’s first family-friendly protest. It lasts over a month.
Over half the protesters are teenage girls.

Why?

DBSK, a boy band.
DBSK’s online site, with nearly a million users, provided these girls with an opportunity to
discuss whatever they wanted, including politics.

Massed together, frightened and angry that Lee’s government had agreed to what
seemed a national humiliation and a threat to public health, the girls decided to do
something about it.

- Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus

When kids who are too young to vote are out in the street protesting policies, it can
shake governments used to a high degree of freedom from public oversight.

When teenage girls can help organize events that unnerve national governments,
without needing professional organization or organizers to get the ball rolling, we are
in new territory. As Mimi Ito describes the protesters,

Their participation in the protests was grounded less in the concrete conditions of their
everyday lives, and more in their solidarity with a shared media fandom… Although
so much of what kids are doing online may look trivial and frivolous, what
they are doing is building the capacity to connect, to communicate, and
ultimately, to mobilize.
.. What’s distinctive about this historical moment and today’s rising generation is not
only a distinct form of media expression, but how this expression is tied to social
action.

- Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus

Failure = free, high quality research.

What the open source movement
teaches us is that the communal can
be at least as durable as the
commercial. For any given piece of
software, the question “Do the
people who like it take care of each
other?” turns out to be a better
predictor of success that “What’s the
business model?” As the rest of the
world gets access to the tools once
reserved for the techies, that pattern
is appearing everywhere, and it is
changing society as it does.

20.

p. 124:
To participate wholeheartedly in
something means to be self-
motivated and self-directed,
intensely and genuinely
enthusiastic.
If we're forced to do something,
or if we do it halfheartedly, we're
not really participating.
If we don't care how it all turns
out, we're not really participating.
If we're passively waiting it out,
we're not really participating. And
the less we fully participate in our
everyday lives, the fewer
opportunities we have to be
happy.
It's that plain and simple.

Dennis Littky’s The
Met in Providence,
RI, is the closest
example to what
we’ve found to what
we’re trying to do in
the Lab.

Their mantras:
1)One student at a
time
2)Real work
3)Learning through
interests
4)Family
engagement

Oh my.. Quick, easy read, of how we could change ed.

22. And he’s been doing it for 10 years. No need to wait to see if it works.

ownership of choices

We owe the Amish hackers a large debt...
through their lives we can see the
technium's dilemma very clearly:
To maximize our own contentment, we
see the
minimum amount of technology in our
lives.
yet to maximize the contentment of
others, we must maximize the amount of
technology in the world.

We can only find out own minimal tools if
others have created a sufficient maximum
pool of options we can choose from. The
dilemma remains in how we can
personally minimize stuff close to us while
trying to expand it globally.

24.

Recommended by Kes Sampanthar, haven’t read yet.

25.

By Mark Pesce

non-linearity

26. Recommended by Rita J. King, haven’t read yet.

Indulge, give your self permission, go back to your roots,
your curiosities and connect to…

click to lose yourself in Feynman
Learners need to experience expert learners
experiencing /modeling this.

click for free ebook from SXSW poke the box

Do the Work, written for Seth Godin’s Domino Project
a version of The War of Art..

29.

Oh my.. maybe start here… my plaigerent post
Pressfield is one of Godin’s mentors..

30.

Clark on what schools should be..

31.

Yaacov on his Education Cities…

32.

Started a post on his words…here.
non-compulsory - awakening doesn't happen through compulsion
partial freedom is not freedom
radical transformation will only come when adults uncondition themselves
It all depends on what kind of human beings we want our children to be

33.
wisdom is not marketable
when there is love of the child (of humanity) all things are possible

John Dewey’s How We Think (post w/links to sections)

34.
Still reading.. will add more here soon..

Reading it now, wish I had a hard copy.

35.

Recommended by Will Richardson.

36.

Recommended by Liz Rayment.
Great read for what we’re trying
to model/prototype with the be
you house.

37.

Recommended by Thomas Steele-Maley.
Great read for why we need to respectfully
question how we spend our hours in the
day… how we ask youth to spend the hours

38. in their day…

Recommended by Thomas Steele-Maley.
Great read for insight into our dependency
on addictions, on mindless following..

39.

40. Great look at how learning really happens,
our assumptions, …

We are all Weird, Seth Godin,

41. The myth of the mass and the end of compliance.
Weird is the new normal..

42.
Rethinking time, space, choice, …

Turning fear and doubt into fuel for
brilliance. (haven’t read this one yet)

43.

Brilliant. Getting outside of your own mind,

44. so you’re not missing things that matter.

Global Mesh. Use what you have. Trans-local very much

45. like a global be you.
Recommend by Mary Ann Reilly.

46. Fostering creative genius. Recommend by Jeff Brazil.

47. Why creates culture rather than relying on
controls.

48. The power of introverts in a world that
can’t stop talking.

Getting through college with adhd. But a
great message for life on many realms.

49.

Changing the dna of higher ed from the
inside out.

50.

Economics for humans..
mediocre vs breathtaking…

51.

Doing what you love, figuring out how to
connect with others to do it even more…

52.

Boldly owning/changing the conversation…

(link above on book cover is to pdf, click
here to see alternate ways to access via

53. Squidoo)

How to thrive online.
Howard has made a uni syllabus and hs
syllabus… more to come..

54.

Notes Landry “If you think of the city as a mechanical thing…
you tend to come up with mechanical solutions. If you think of
the city as an organism… suddenly it’s all about relationships.

55. How do people connect? How do they work together?”

I love Colin Ward. He helps you pay attention to what matters.
Makes the world around you come to life.

56.

This mostly made me angry, but it made it easy to see our net
sum of ed reform, even if we play that game. Easy to see our
negative sum, we’ve got to quit ending sentences and

57. verifying ourselves with, “and their tests scores….”

Some great insight on what is more green – rural or urban.
Some great insight on enlivening a city.
Didn’t like the assumption of what a good school was… (ie:

58. test scores)

The next social revolution.
Via Howard: I have used the term "smart mobs" because I
believe the time is right to combine conscious cooperation ,

59. the fun kind, with the unconscious reciprocal altruism that is
rooted in our genes.

Connected adjacencies can change the world… unlikely
suspects mingling in the gray – between the silos..

60.

Design that matters. Esp resonated with part at end on
unfinished symphany. Cocreation

61. Suggested by @rogre

How important it is to follow your dreams. Whimsy does
matter, and is not ridiculous.

62.

Live, be alive/awake, pay attention to, swim in…
the here and the now.

63.

More than gpa, did you notice the gorilla.

64.

Trust, the one thing that changes everything, speeds things
up, saves money.

65.

Change that comes from the soul, because of the soul, with
the soul.

66.

Presencing.. Otto out of MIT, looking for what we are
working on.. A small group of people devoted, a testing

67. space.

Now, creates no time, no future or past – which we can’t
change. Just now.

68.

How to facilitate meetings.. conversations..

69.

How they shape our world

70.

How to facilitate meetings.. conversations..

71.

Living in the here. The now. Esp like the movie a day and
the virtual mentor a week. So simple. And keeping us from

72. missing what matters most.

Whoa. Ch 21 ff – describes our vision of the city – in this
quiet revolution.. via public ed..

73.

Shirley is 11. brilliant insight.

74.

Networked individualism (B Wellman), meshing you, rather
in ed – rather than waiting for innovations to scale, let’s

75. scale the individual. Fits perfect with app idea.

We have so many options today. We need to start asking
ourselves questions that matter.. be clever about the days

76. we have.

Another much like Reid Hoffman’s – the start up of you. No
one can change you but you.

77.

Listen deeply to student voice. I don’t think we realize
that we’re all thinking much the same thing… great insight

78. now, in a book, for us.

The start up of your community/city. Great insight to the
mindset needed.

79.

75% of our sensory is visual.. how to hear each other better.
How to put form on flighty thought…

80.

Too Big to Know:
Rethinking
Knowledge Now
That the Facts
Aren't the Facts,
Experts Are
Everywhere, and
the Smartest
Person in the Room
Is the Room

The too much-ness is getting us back to us.. we have to
prune out what matters. Difference between a pyramid
(manufactured) and a network (organic) is a foundation,

81.
network doesn’t have one.

Imagine if we were brave enough to say.. I don’t know,
maybe I’m wrong.

82.

Interesting uni history. Was surprised it wasn’t more
sandbox-ish.

83.

Some great insight on creativity, et al. Was surprised it
wasn’t more sandbox-ish.

84.

Great insight on how we think, within a person and within
the human race.

85.

Great insight into how creativity works. Creativity is residue
to wasted time. Grit is single most predictor of success..

86.

Anti-disciplinary, alternate currency, et al.

87.

The importance of attachment – healthy adult relationship.
The allowance for authenticity – when that happens.

88.

How do you know you’re doing what you’re supposed to?
Because you are.

89.

Love..love in regard to self-organized… self-structure.
Curious why I hasn’t spread more… this whole idea of
deliberately not teaching.

90.

Amy’s been suggesting this forever. Great advice on how we
are being more risky by thinking that we are playing it safe.

91.

Bernie’s been called a female Seth Godin. Short poignant
posts..

92.

How can we use tech to make us smarter…

93.

Guru at google, wants to see world peace in his lifetime. All
about self-convo, et al. Started curriculum for this at google
in 2007. Imagine if he got the idea to do it 100% in public

94.
ed.. scale the individual.

Spot on.. what is not a remix?

95.

Heavy into finding the thing you can’t not do.

96.

Great insight into unschooling, networked individualism,
believing in learning.

97.

Great inspiration. We need to move beyond management
issues. What are basics? Who decides? What’s a space?...

98.

Scale the individual – ish – onlyness.

99.

Another brilliant read.
Especially love: the most rational thing to do is irrational art;
most people believe they are still fenced in. Ridiculous – the

100.
new remarkable.

…to most any…
aps:
Especially perh listen to global voices
an –
Ethan Zuckerm reativity
on – schools kill c
Sir Ken Robins ing the world to
listen
– teach
Evelyn Glennie – danger of a si
ngle story
dichie
Chimamanda A side out
JR – tu rn the world in
of possibility
Ben Z ander – the art sources, don’t
manage
provide re
Sugata Mitra – resources
veling out our

r
le
Hans Rosling – here we get th
e least done

o
ork -w
Jason Fried – w abundance
Kim Sheinbe rg – presumed
ive surplus
Clay Shirky – cognit ativity
rt – nurturing cre
Elizabeth Gilbe
ower of pull
Jo hn Hagel lll – p
igital equity
Kosta Grammatis – d of purpose
Richard Lied er – the power
on why
Simon Sinek – es innovation
– youtube driv
Chris Anderson ossibilities
n – adjacent p
Steven Johnso e solution mmunity
tricklan d – look like th dential from co
Bill S ovement = cre
Bunker Ro y – barefoot m

Latest find:

-Nic Askew

Especially perhaps, the ones from 2 years ago..

What
wakes
you
up?

click to play

Perhaps
it’s our
assumption
that we’ll be
here tomorrow
that keeps us
from our
capacity to…

live.

-Nic Askew films
click to play

Found this
because of Nic
Askew, as he
was asked to
write about why
he does click to go to site
-Nic Askew films

This last page is per Godin’s post today: Who’s on your list

Well my list is way too long to be sure. Besides all the great authors and
speakers I’ve already mentioned, and actually I do have a list divided up by
categories even, I would say, ..
whoever I’m with, whoever I was just with, I just don’t know.

There are so many incredible people I get the privilege of being around.
Every day I’m meeting someone new or realizing something new about old
acquaintances. Every day I’m going.. dang.. how lucky to be me… and how
wise are they..
I’ve missed so much in my years of existence. I think I listen well, I think
that’s one of my best gifts. But I also know – I miss so much.

So my list exists – yeah, but it’s undergirded with... what I just learned, who I
just met.

Eternally and spontaneously greatful to the endless who.

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