Threshold concepts
Tweet “Threshold concepts” is a term from higher education theory, meaning an idea or a piece of knowledge which, once understood, is transformative...
Tag: thinking
Outliner thinking
Tweet In this MIT Technology Review article about different writing and blog authoring tools – As We May Type – Paul Ford describes a tribe I wasn’...
Thinking about Diigo (and some useful tips)
Tweet If there is one online tool that I would recommend anyone who thinks for a living, it’s Diigo. The new version of Diigo, launched a month or so ago ...
Artefact Cards and liminal states: creative thinking breakthrough tools
Tweet There’s a long, long list in my subconscious that I hardly dare look at: Things I Should Have Blogged. The items comprise three types: Important ide...
Experts, framing and starting with the end in mind
Tweet One thing I have learned from listening to and spending time with experts is that a lot of expertise is not articulated explicitly. Their mental models, s...
Cognitive slipstreaming: Thinking is an endurance sport
Tweet * Updated * In endurance swimming, I found out this week, you slipstream* just like cyclists do in a peloton. My wife, a sea swimmer, told me that swimmin...
Working fast and slow
Tweet Maria Popova blogged about a book called Reading Like a Writer – by the aptly named Francine Prose – that looks at the importance of reading f...
Learning to learn, thinking about thinking
Tweet Image: my niece, Boudicca, being amazing, as babies are wont to do… How our brains work is something that I’m reading and thinking about a lot...
If in doubt: Do
Tweet A post I read on The School of Life blog has really stuck with me the past day. Perhaps because it invokes Benjamin Franklin, whose framework for each day...
Build-to-run
Tweet Like Alan Patrick of Broadstuff, I’m a fan of Techmeme, the technology news aggregator that tells you at a glance what the hot tech/web industry sto...