Seth Godin

BTW, the Seth Godin article I referred to was [Mode switching | Seth's Blog Godin](https://seths.blog/2021/01/mode-switching/). David Sparks has a similar concept, "contextual computing". [Linking and Contextual Computing — MacSparky](https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2020/12/linking-and-contextual-computing)

The background for Hook's is cognitive science / education tech R&D I and my co-founders had been doing 2001 (2003, 2006)- 2009 at SFU called gStudy and nStudy (www.sfu.ca/~lpb/tr/2009-Luc_P_Beaudoin-Phil_Winne-nStudy.pdf). We had been designing and implementing personal learning environment for Phil Winne's Learning Kit project at Simon Fraser University (SFU). The core concept I contributed from the beginning of my design was "linking anything to anything" within the system and web (cf. Ted Nelson and Douglas Englebart). We were implementing / incorporating tools in the PLE (note-taking, mind maps, web browser, flashcards, etc.) My Tundra-related insight that led to Hook was that instead of re-inventing the wheel (note-taking, mind maps, etc.) in a big PLE, I could allow users to use best of breed apps and simply connect all their resources with a nimble piece of software. So with Hook, users can use whatever software they like (e.g., for Note taking Bear, Obsidian, BBEdit, Apple Notes, whatever). Hook would serve the links, connect the items, and allow users to navigate in a popup window they invoke within the context of their favorite apps.

Last year I published a…

stevepavlina.com - It's not a patch on what it was in its heyday but I still check a few times a year.

jamesaltucher.com - I can't say I've ever actually learned anything useful on the site, but I still enjoy James's writing. I found a few of the podcasts of interest - although most is the usual baloney of people thinking they are God's Gift and are just there to flog their tat.

lifepassionandbusiness.com - new but I have listened to most of the podcasts and I like the questions the presenter (Paul Harvey) asks. By having a set set of questions for all guests it keeps things on point and not just about how wonderful the guests are (in their own estimation) as on some other podcasts.

https://www.gogently.co/listen-to-a-podcast - blog/podcast with Michael Nobbs. Not personal development per se, but I think we could all do with slowing down a bit. Michael's a great presenter and should probably be hired by the BBC! :)

https://seths.blog/ - again not strictly personal development, but there are usually useful life tips to be picked up.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ - some life changing content in there. Depends where you are in the journey though. For some all this falls on deaf ears, but if you've made a lost a fortune a couple of times this could help get you on the straight and narrow!

https://www.alastairhumphreys.com/ - probably one of the best things you can do if you are serious about personal development is get your teeth stuck into a big hairy adventure that…

- Read outside your "interests"/"comfort zone" [0]

- Talk to other people (especially those a couple degrees separated from the field you're trying to think about)

- Try to come up with bad ideas [1]

- Carry something to write on and with (no - just typing it into your phone is not good enough (but it's better than not recording it at all))

- Ask questions - they're more important than ideas [2]. I reprinted "35 great questions" from Inc a few years ago [3] ... maybe they'll be of help here :)

- Listen to music (especially instrumental or in a foreign language you don't know (eg Carl Orff's Carmina Burana)) that isn't "your thing" ..discovery mode (or whatever the different services call it) on streaming offerings can be pretty interesting; likewise checking-out random albums from your local library

There're a few ideas for you on how to get ideas

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[0] https://theexceptioncatcher.com/blog/2012/11/varying-your-reading-materials/

[1] https://seths.blog/2018/06/the-two-simple-secrets-to-good-ideas/

[2] http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html

[3] https://antipaucity.com/tag/35-questions/

Disasters are also opportunities. Inventing and re-inventing, in a hurry, can force us to put in 'good enough' solutions, which end up iterating into true innovation and paradigm changes.

This is not a "schools are broken" rant. There are schools, staff and teachers which do tremendous, underappreciated work. With 4 kids between the ages of 9 and 19, I have seen it first-hand.

There is always room for improvement and improving remote education would make learning opportunities available to many more people, and be a great experience for many.

The 'conversation' theme in this post for example:
https://seths.blog/2020/03/the-conversation/

And the 'collaboration' theme in this post:
https://avc.com/2020/03/teaching-online/

This message is suspiciously like being told to draw the outline of an owl then draw the rest of the fucking owl.

https://seths.blog/2014/01/how-to-draw-an-owl/

The word recursively does a lot of work in the post.

Every project I go into thinking I can do it quick and it never works that way because the minimal viable or minimum lovable thing is a long way from the minimum actual concept of what I have in mind. I feel that I need to build enough that the user is engaged with it.

I feel like those first explorers willing to try out a new thing are incredibly valuable and their attention should not be wasted on the outline, but they should be presented with the owl.

Reminds me of this quote from Stop Stealing Dreams [1]:

> Philosopher Jeremy Bentham argued that if two kids playing hopscotch or push-pin are gaining as much joy and pleasure as someone reading poetry, they have enjoyed as much utility.

> John Stuart Mill took a different approach. He argued, “it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.”

1. https://seths.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/stop-stealing-dreams6print.pdf