Last year I spent much of it in lockdown which meant hours spent at home to do a lot of thinking. I’m at a time in my life where I’m beginning to think about the next phase of my life. One focused less about work and career and instead, more about being there for my […]
Mass Deletions & Deactivations
It’s time for a massive rethink on how I use social media which is providing me with precious little value anymore. In this post I share how I will focus more on creation and sensemaking.
Transformation
In this post I write about 2021 being the year of transformation.
Notes on What Is to Be Done by Barry Jones
“I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been for” [Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov 1881) The following is an outline of the chapter and headings of his book. Preface Explains his first book Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the future of work which was published in 1982 where explained what we […]
Notes from a World Without Work
Here are my notes from Daniel Susskind’s A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond. Introduction Introduces John Maynard Keynes term “technological unemployment” (link points to the data of this happening in Australia in coming years) as in what the progress had done to horses would eventually do to human beings to […]
Reading Challenge for 2020
My year in 2020 consisted of a LOT of reading much of it due to being in lockdown for much of it. Every year, I set myself up a Reading Challenge using the GoodReads app. Over the years, the pace of reading books has increased however, it means it’s at the expense of doing some […]
What Would You Do If You Didn’t Have to Work
Recently I asked this question on Twitter because I was inspired by some of the arguments presented in Daniel Susskind’s new book, A World Without Work. I’ll have a video review of this available soon as I am still collecting notes and also asking questions to others about this. In the book, he argues that […]
What is Life Long Learning?
Although this is not a definition I looked up anywhere but basing it on my own understanding and my own experience of it, I would say lifelong learning is the practice of continuing learning through your entire life. It’s not entangled with the trivialities of the questions of ‘what’, ‘how’ and even ‘who’ is responsible. […]
Foster & Build Lifelong Learning Practices in Your Day-to-Day Job
I’m excited to announce that our work at Adopt & Embrace will have a new book out some time in the new year that will be slightly different to our first published book called Microsoft Team: A Manager’s Guide to Communication, Collaboration and Co-ordination with Microsoft Teams. Although it will be a surprise, the focus […]
Lifelong Learning as a Human Right
I’m reading a book by Daniel Susskind called A World Without Work and it makes for some fascinating reading. Once I finish it and have a chance to put some thoughts on paper about it, I’ll share a video review on YouTube. This year I’ve been reflecting on a lot of things namely, trying to […]
Learning Out Loud Is Like a Photo Album
I have had my YouTube channel for some years now. I like to call it my “Learning Biography”. It started as a way to upload all my daily videos from Snapchat where I shared my experiments, thoughts, reflections of the things I was learning about and working on. A kind of video album as well […]
Reflections of 2020
It’s that time of the year again when I write down reflections of the year past and oh, what a year. First things first, there’s no reason trying to recall anything because I’ve either taken video footage of it in my YouTube vlog or written about it in my journal (private writing not shared). So […]
What I Learned About Myself – And About Learning – Learning French
Many of you know that I have been learning French this year. I have been devoting time, energy and attention to getting my language skill up to speed in the hope that I learn this language to the point of being able to speak it, read it and also understand it when it is spoken […]
Spaced Repetition in Learning
This year admittedly, I have focussed much of my time on learning new things. It was primarily because I had more time given that I work three days a week (personal choice for my mental health and wellbeing) which left me the other days to focus on everything else. Given that there wasn’t much going […]
Using Social Media on the Desktop Only – Results So Far
One week ago, I deleted all social media off my phone and only been using some of the them through desktop only. This means that I’m spending less time doing mindless scrolling and wasting time on it because I’ve effectively reduced picking up the phone at odd times at the expense of doing other activities […]
Nostalgia
I’ve been thinking a lot about the past this year. Guess you can call it “being nostalgic”. I’ve been thinking more about the good times in the past where for whatever reason I seemed to feel as if I “was in my element”, a time where I seemed to have a carefree attitude without negative […]
iTalki – A Great App If You Need to Practice Speaking a Language
I have written a lot on Twitter about spending time learning French. This year, as part of a personal challenge (and also being in lockdown), I figured it was high time for me to get back into French with a vengeance. The last time I had any formal education was back in 1981-1985 so you […]
The Women Talking About Learning Podcast
A few weeks back, I was invited by Andrew Jacobs (@AndrewJacobsLnD) to chat with Laura Overton (@lauraoverton) on his new podcast The Women Talking about Learning. This is a different podcast where Andrew, as the host effectively holds the space but doesn’t contribute or engage in the conversation between two women who are in the […]
Learning Uncut Podcast
Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Michelle Ockers (@MichelleOckers) who has the Learning Uncut podcast. New #LearningUncut Ep 67 explores #Collaboration & #SocialLearning, reducing reliance on “go-to” people in organisations, supporting people to connect, work and learn in digital spaces & so much more. For full Ep highlights click here: https://t.co/gceygOPIgh #Podcast […]
A Distracted Mind
For the last few days, I’ve not accessed social media on my phone because I deleted all social media off it! After a hissy fit where I felt like shit because I was constantly picking up the bloody thing to Twitter that would feed me information that made me angry (mainly news related), I […]