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{ Monthly Archives } June 2005

Be a statistic

Done. Painless. Take 15 minutes and add your two cents. be a statistic. Be a statistic and *please* help Cam graduate. Pretty pretty please. [apophenia]

2005 06 28 Jim Personal Comments (0)

Corante launches Future Tense – on the future of work

I’ve signed up to contribute to a new blog at Corante that launched officially today. Hylton Jolliffe lays out the premise below. My involvement grew out of a lunch Hylton and I had last month in Cambridge (at Charlie’s Kitchen, a Harvard Square landmark). We’ll be exploring a topic that’s long been near and dear [...]

2005 06 28 Jim Knowledge work
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Don’t part with your illusions

I prefer to think of them as dreams, but the point remains. Don’t part with your illusions. I’ve had this hanging around in an editor window so I wouldn’t lose it for so long now that I can’t remember where I saw it… Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still [...]

2005 06 19 Jim Personal
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BBC Gives Away Beethoven

What a wonderful gift from the BBC. I listened to the 3rd and 4th symphonies this afternoon on my flight to San Francisco. Looking forward to downloading the remaining symphonies when they are available. BBC Gives Away Beethoven. The BBC rocks. Here they are giving away MP3s of all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies here for [...]

2005 06 19 Jim Personal Comments (0)

Thanks Dave!

I’ll get this moved over to the margin shortly, but I wanted to make sure it got up here quickly. I’ve been depending on Dave’s innovations since the first version of ThinkTank shipped in the early 1980s. From outlining to blogs to RSS, the central concepts and tools in my day-to-day knowledge work all flow [...]

2005 06 18 Jim Personal Comments (0)

One of those weeks

I have been feeling as though I’ve been slacking off in posting here lately. Right at the end of last month and the beginning of this, I felt I was just getting back into a decent rhythm. That should have been a clear warning sign. It started with what seemed like a simple request to [...]

2005 06 18 Jim Personal Comments (0)

Organizational lessons from Hunterdon High

Fascinating case study of better meshing high school with real world demands. I suspect that, if this experiment is allowed to continue (by no means a certain thing), these are students who will be prepared to cope with the world they will have to face. Here’s the money quote for me: “You have to make [...]

2005 06 06 Jim Learning
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We are all apprenticing at light speed

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2005 06 01 Jim Learning Comments (0)