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Adding this sci fi film to my movie queue…

Adding this too...  The Visit Proves That Families Are the Scariest Thing of All

Gotta keep positive...

Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency David Remnick via The New Yorker

Bernie Sanders: Where We Go From Here  Matt Taibbi via Rolling Stone

A Mathematician's Perspective on the Divide Vi Hart via YouTube

(btw, see Parable of the Polygons:  A Playable post on the Shape of Society by Vi Hart and Nicky Case)

Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump via The Washington Post

Talking Back to Hate Speech, Explained. via Bill Moyers & Company

Playlist: Videos that will blow your mind

290 Seconds That Will Blow Your Mind

4 Information Ages

Changing Educational Paradigms

How Schools Kill Creativity

Juan Enriquez:  The Next Species of Human

The History and Future of Time

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Visual Notes

Boston Dynamic

 (Big dog, Pet man etc)

Meet-up:  Gurteen Knowledge Management NYC

I recently joined a meet-up group for the first time.  And I’m so glad I did!

Prior to the invitation to the group “Gurteen Knowledge Management” I had heard of neither the name “Gurteen” nor the term “Knowledge Management”. From the description on the “About” page and the title of the next topic “Breaking Down Silos Through Working Outloud”   I decided it looked interesting enough to attend a meeting and find out more...

About the group: 21,000 people in 160 countries are part of the Gurteen Knowledge Community.  Help us create a strong core in New York City.  After all, there is a lot of knowledge here to be shared!  This is a group for knowledge management enthusiasts who like to share KM practices, learn from others and improve their organizations. Knowledge sharing practices can make a company run more efficiently and increase employee productivity. Join us in sharing practices of ways you share knowledge in your organization!

The presentation at the meeting was fantastic! 

view Joachim’s slides on Google Drive 

connect with Joachim on google+

I had long been a fan of Jane Bozarth’s work:

Jazne Bozarth Website  |  @JaneBozarth  |  Show Your Work (on Amazon)

But Joachim mentioned many other pioneers and practitioners of the same philosophy to check out:

Dave Winer, “Narrate Your Work” Bryce Write, “Breaking Down ‘Work Out Loud’” John Stepper “Working Out Loud:  The Making of a Movement” (TEDx video) Catherine Shinners “They Dynamics of Working Out Loud” Dennis Pearce “Working Out Loud Doctoral Thesis”

Besides a great presentation, I also really enjoyed the group discussion.  

One of the topics that we talked about that  I am particularly interested in right now is slack-

Slack results (from their website) My OneTab: Slack

One last link- WOL Week on Twitter

Christmas is the season of giving

If you're on Amazon, check out Amazon smile where you can support your favorite charity everytime you shop.   

Foodies, turn your pictures into donations with this app: We the Feedies 

A couple of other great links to check out:

Giving What We Can

What is the Greatest Good?

Holiday Giving:  7 Children’s Charities You Should Know About

Image used under Creative Commons license (BY) by John-Morgan

Blacklisted: The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist

The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept. The “March 2013 Watchlisting Guidance,” a 166-page document issued last Read more

Welcome to Narco World

I ride the subway a lot. It’s how I get from the East Side to the West Side and all around the town. Lately, I’ve noticed ads promoting “Narcan” (naloxone hydrochloride). At…

Another fantastic post by my friend Rob... 

working on context slide

Students Hate Writing Papers. Professors Hate Grading Papers. Let

Everybody in college hates papers. Students hate writing them so much that they buy, borrow, or steal them instead. Plagiarism is now so commonplace that if we flunked every kid who did it, wed have a worse attrition rate than a MOOC. And on those rare occasions undergrads do deign...

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/an-open-letter-in-defense-of-rebecca-schuman/54301

https://www.change.org/petitions/scholars-writers-and-teachers-open-letter-in-defense-of-rebecca-schuman

Changes in technology and in how information is shared both further and faster are transforming how organizations operate. Thomas Malone, of the MIT Sloan School of Management, shows how the changes in organizational structure mirror changes in how human society has organized and operated. His presentation illustrates that these changes can be primarily tied by a single factor, the cost of communication, and he presents present-day examples to show what the organization of the future may look like.