Reading about a pen I’m trying to convince my wife to give me when I retire.
On Building Meaningful Virtual Connections
Currently working with colleagues to catalog and then share the creative and fun methods we used to build meaningful relationships in virtual teams. SPOILER: To find ethical ways to work online, you prime directive is to respect employee/student privacy if you hope to engender trust.
It’s 6PM on a Friday waiting for pumpkin pie in County Tipperary, Ireland. Part of a Day in the Life of Micro Blog.
Empathy is a hard skill that should be required from the board room to the shop floor. -- Belinda Parmar, Harvard Business Review, 2015
I’m watching creative media students on my university campus in Ireland protest the scarcity of apartments and the rising cost of living.
Another fact about ebook peeps
The average Kindle owner is a 10x reader. @ibscribe on Twitter
After using the MB search feature and finding dozens of results for the term “substack” I decided to play around with the tool. Because people who read often become good students in evening classes I teach.
Watching hundreds of gallons of water flow from a hydrant outside because our supply hasn’t been safe to drink for more than a week.
First time I recorded that it’s a 10k walk to and from the school gates with my son. Rain-assisted today.
Brains
I know the suggestion that one side of the brain is dominant has been scoffed at in recent times, but it still holds water. I still think it was a right-brained person who invented Christianity and the Virgin Birth and a man walking on water. And that it is left-brained people who police it and …
One third of the university students I teach are focused on leaving Ireland when they finish their degrees. Many don’t plan to attend their graduation ceremonies.
Morning Coffee View.
Coffee with Leuchtturm 1917.
From Pen to iA Writer to MB
I wanted to see if I could post my handwriting to MB. So I did a test. I wrote these words with black ink. Then snapped them with my phone’s Readwise app. The app extracted the text so I pasted the text into iA writer. Then I copied-all and pasted into MB. This works even when using a page …
Respecting Metaculus after reading about a major experiment conducted with U.S. intelligence agencies. S,ubject-matter experts performed no better than chance on multiple-choice questions about the outcomes of major world events. But other people — known as “superforecasters” — reliably outperformed …
Enjoyed a glorious Winding Stair lunch and winding free-flowing convo in Dublin with the Business Podfather Shel Holtz and his gracious wife Michelle.
Heading to Dublin to meet two podcasters who wrote the Pod Bible we’ve used since its release in 2007.
I’m lucky to be training the next generation of developers for immersive reality so I’m currently reading: The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew Ball 📚
I have a Calendar Item called Focus Time. When it kicks off, I close electronic items and return to thinking with my pen.
Two more weeks and my morning coffee view will be leafless.
Greetings from the coldest train platform in Ireland.
I’m colloborating on the story of Amazing Lace A History Of The Limerick Lace Industry by Matthew Potter 📚Learning about the thickness of thread and the speed of bobbins.
My head hurts when reading how some people think.
Motivated towards positivity h/t @poetalagre poetalegre.micro.blog/2022/08/1…
Mississippi Crisis Highlights Climate Threat to Drinking Water Nationwide
In Jackson, a majority Black city, water troubles have been exacerbated by decades of underinvestment, mismanagement and an exodus of residents to the suburbs, which leads to less money flowing to utilities. “I’m taking my kids to friends’ and family members’ houses to bathe them,” said Brittany …