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Unreasonable Hospitality

Creating a people-first, ‘working together’ culture I borrowed this from Wellington City Libraries, but wish to permanently add it to my reference bookshelf, and add my own highlighting, scribbles and post it notes. Estelle Tracey (of 37 Chocolates) recommended that we, students of her chocolate educators course, should read Unreasonable Hospitality – The Remarkable Power…
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The joy of building a high school French language web app with your teen (and not letting AI take over our brains)

Thinking fast, slow, artificially – is AI making us stupid, or having us surrender our cognitive abilities to it? There are plenty of bad uses, and consequences of bad use, for AI. I’ve now started to learn about the risk of it becoming the human’s third external and artificial thinking system, that replaces the all-important…
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We’ve got “This”

It has been clarifying and refreshing to read Essentialism – The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown. Many enthusiastic nods from my direction as I’ve made my way through the book. Essentialism is what I’d like more of. Greg best describes the concept and the book on his website: The Way of the Essentialist…
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Dead startups, or dreams coming true?

Reading about Dead Startups made me wonder three things: Who or where are all these startups that are looking for generalists? How can I meet them and make my-generalist-self known? And help them in a way that aligns with my values & priorities? Did my start ups die??! We’ll see what happens with Questions 1…