I’m a huge fan of George Orwell. Guess you could say he’s my literary crush. I love all his books and I can’t help but feel that he was an empath writing about the human condition and the inequalities in society as well as making some predictions of the future which have somehow all become […]
What Did You Miss in April?
Here are my collected posts and YouTube videos for April 2020. Blog Posts What did you miss in March 2021? (Collected blog posts and videos from March) Completing the 30 Day Speak Your Target Language (French) Challenge Enjoying the Moment [on self-reflection] Enjoying My Birthday Future Fit [on importance of having a digital profile] Creating […]
Notes on Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman
I recently read Rutger Bregaman’s book Utopia for Realists and How We Can Get There. Here is my review of his book: We are currently living in the best period of life and we can construct a society now with the best ideas – that strangely, aren’t new ideas at all. His big ideas are […]
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 […]
Books Are My Drugs
Recently I’ve been spending more hours reading than doing anything else. Truth be told, this year, my reading of novels had taken a turn for the worse. The recent books on the seller’s shelves were really doing nothing for me. In the last couple of months, I was unable to finish the novels selected by […]
Book Tube Reviews
I love to read. A couple of years back I decided to read more fiction as a means of getting my focus back and I wrote about it in the post Reading Books as Sense Making. At the same time, I was also watching many Book Tubers review their books online so I thought I’d […]
Doing A Booktube
I’ve written a lot in recent times about getting some of my time back to get my headspace out of thinking and talking about work all the time (at times it felt I was thinking about learning and development 24/7 and my mind had to take a break). The way I’ve been doing this is […]
Reading Books as Sense Making
Many of you already know about my return to fiction reading after becoming so frustrated with reading only what other people were reading in the area of Learning and Development, Marketing, Business and Entrepreneurship. I think I reached a saturation point with those because it was the same people talking about the same books, talking […]
This Month’s Stories of Personal Learning for the Month of October 2018
Here are this month’s snap stories of personal learning for October 2018. Every week and every month, I like to review these videos to see what I have been doing every day. It’s a great way to capture all my work and learning – and also to see progress towards my goals. Every month I […]
Book Review: Preparing Instructional Objectives: A Critical Tool in the Development of Effective Instruction by Robert Mager
Obviously I am taking my new year resolution to read all my reference books in my well-stocked library at home and write a review on each of them seriously. One of the most critical skills for an instructional developer to have is to write effective instructional objectives. I don’t know about you, but I’ve lost count […]
Book Review: The Blended Learning Book by Josh Bersin
Josh Bersin’s book on Blended Learning: Best Practices, Proven Methodologies and Lessons Learned is one that must be in any learning and development professional library or reading list. His approach to blended learning is simplified as he provides practical examples of how to structure and create a blended program. In particularly, he first outlines the […]