How many great ideas never make it out of your head?
Predictability and linear relationships
The problem with keeping things to yourself
Failing to hit a milestone
My daughter’s pediatrician visits in her first couple of years would always start the same way. We would fill out a checklist, or answer questions from a nurse, to determine if our daughter was reaching her milestones. One time the nurse asked my wife if our daughter was playing patty-cake, which my wife said no. […]
The wrong way to visualize data
As long as you make your point, and don’t completely distort the data, does it matter that your data visualization is setup to be fun and not focused solely on reader comprehension?
In the pre-lecture dressing room
Hypothetical: If a lecture will be presented live to an audience of 100 while being recorded for an audience of thousands, for which audience do you tailor the lecture?
Head in the clouds
I don’t think there is a problem with dreaming big, as long as you stick your head out from time to time…
Swimming in data
There is a lot of data out there just waiting to be analyzed. We just need to know how to swim…
Pregoogled Notion
I’m making up words today. Pregoogled notion – an opinion formed beforehand after a quick Google search.
For a limited time
Most presentations are one shot deals. You have a specific amount of time to speak to a room full of people. Once that time is up, the discussion ends. Blog posts don’t suffer the same fate. I know people often say they don’t have time to blog. But if something is important enough to put […]
Seth Godin’s Stop Stealing Dreams
Seth Godin recently released a free ebook providing his views on the current education system. It’s called Stop Stealing Dreams and *spoiler alert* he thinks things need to change. Download it for free here.
If Mario had an evaluator
It’s interesting to think about how much video games incorporate evaluation in their design.