A Hole in the Heart
Your organisation can live for a long time with deep cultural problems: broken attitudes to people, to the work, to the people you’re trying to… Read More »A Hole in the Heart
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Writing and Reading as Technology (8): Augmenting Reality
Overlay For those who came in late, here’s everyone’s favourite online encyclopedia on AR: Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (8): Augmenting Reality
“Shame On You”
… is an odd construction. We don’t say “Joy on you”, or “Pride on you”.* I speculate (please correct me if you know better) that… Read More »“Shame On You”
Christopher Dawson: Culture, Cult and Cultivation
Every culture is like a plant. It must have its roots in the earth, and for sunlight it needs to be open to the spiritual.… Read More »Christopher Dawson: Culture, Cult and Cultivation
Writing and Reading as Technology (7): History’s First Mass Literacy Campaign?
I haven’t been able to find a literacy campaign earlier than King Sejong the Great of Korea‘s 1443-1444 Hunminjeongeum (“The Correct/Proper Sounds for the Instruction… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (7): History’s First Mass Literacy Campaign?
Writing and Reading as Technology (6): Stop Press. Who invented moveable type?
Not Gutenberg Gutenberg put several important pieces together in a new way in 1439(ish) when he built what most of us probably think of as… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (6): Stop Press. Who invented moveable type?
Writing and Reading as Technology (5): Literacy as Infrastructure for Thought
The development of spoken language was humankind’s first great networking technology.* Speech allows us to communicate thought and to think far better than we could… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (5): Literacy as Infrastructure for Thought
Villainy: Things Fall Apart
“Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.” Gospel of Matthew Where does Sauron… Read More »Villainy: Things Fall Apart
80/20 language and culture learning (Indonesian): Lagu Anak (Kids’ Songs) #2
This is the second in a series of posts on high-leverage ways to learn Indonesian language and culture. The idea is to identify activities that… Read More »80/20 language and culture learning (Indonesian): Lagu Anak (Kids’ Songs) #2
80/20 language and culture learning (Indonesian): Lagu Anak (Kids’ Songs) #1
This is the first in a series of posts on high-leverage ways to learn Indonesian language and culture. The idea is to identify activities that… Read More »80/20 language and culture learning (Indonesian): Lagu Anak (Kids’ Songs) #1