Conde Nast publications will team up with universities to create a set of accredited certificate (Credential) programs and eventually master’s-degree programs (with the colleges and universities, not the magazines, as the "institution.") Condé Nast writers and editors will contribute subject matter expertise and the publisher will provide some financial backing to the partnerships... The institutions and new academic programs (which will include both interactive online content and in-person elements) have not yet been identified, but discussions with universities are under way with the goal of launching the first programs in fall 2015... The initiative is the latest backed by University Ventures, a New York-based fund that since 2012 has sought to drive innovation in traditional higher education not by "disrupting" it from the outside but by encouraging it from within... The Condé Nast project was an intriguing first partnership for Qubed, Pianko says, because of the opportunity to "bring incredibly strong consumer brands into education and connect them with strong university brands to build consumer experiences commensurate with the quality of those brands.".. "picture a business innovation program created with Wired Mag, or having students work with leading designers and architects through a program with Architectural Digest,"... "We think our brands have far-reaching influence, and would like to use that in positive way to educate people." MOOC?

David Remnick, Steve Bannon, and the Revolt Against the Elites. Twitter is a repository for the real opinions of real people, but it is also a virtual space that exists in parallel to reality traditionally conceived. It’s governed by its own strange weather. But in this case the online storm pointed to factors that exist outside the online discourse, including a growing distaste for the media-political bubble in which people like Remnick and Bannon live. (more)

David Kadavy: Patience: It takes three years to accomplish anything meaningful. Yes, you can get a lot done in a year. You can get a lot done in a day. You can even get a lot done in ten minutes. But it takes three years to really accomplish —to build and combine a mixture of new skills, and get buy-in from the rest of the world. (more)

A design for a Learning process. Despite the name, it's focused on being a design for a school (Generative Schooling) system, though it could work for Home-School-ing also (though group processes could be more of a challenge). (more)

Pathologically Seeking a Meaning Of Life via purchases. (more)

Self-Directed Learning

fork of Notational Velocity

Tiago Forte Note-Taking technique

MindForger - Thinking Notebook (Thinking Space) and Markdown IDE https://www.mindforger.com/. Where do you keep your private remarks like ideas, personal plans, exam preparation (more)

Niklas Luhmann (December 8, 1927 – November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory, who is considered one of the most important social theorists of the 20th century.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann (more)

a Wiki that has 1 writer but many readers (more)

Ben Horowitz framing: A good product manager is the CEO of the product. (more)

John Cutler: Less Herding. More Doing. Here’s a totally biased product manager tip: Be a team member. Be a participant. Less herding. More doing. (more)

see Growth Hacking

Kit Ulrich: The 6 types of Product Managers. Which one do you need? That lack of definition leads to hiring mis-steps and not understanding the superpowers and kryptonite for each type of product person. (more)

Suzie Boss agrees with Ewan McIntosh that Problem Finding is the key to effective Project Based Learning. Design Thinking provides a better framework for learning that emphasizes defining the problem at the outset. Before diving into solutions, students might first conduct focus groups, do user interviews, or conduct other research to fully understand an issue. That means they develop empathy along with ingenuity as they work through the Iterative process of generating ideas, prototyping, testing, getting user feedback, and refining solutions... "Design Thinking is not a project that one does on a Wednesday afternoon once the 'serious' learning has taken place. It's a change of Culture throughout a school that leads to better learning," he says. Before schools start making the shift to design thinking, McIntosh encourages them to conduct Action Research to fully understand the problems they want to address. Essentially, teachers and school leaders use design-thinking methods to figure out what's working in their school and what isn't. (more)

Description originally about developers who could build both the back-end and front-end, and anything else necessary to get code into production. Sometimes more generally used to refer to Generalist who Gets Things Done.

fuzzy Robot toy (more)

Dave McCusker is a Mage. (more)

Andy Hunt has been giving a talk this year on "Refactoring your WetWare". Sounds like it would be cool. Right Brain/Context, Personal Wiki, Getting Things Done (more)