I’ve been using the website/service IDoneThis.com to send myself a daily reminder to reflect on my accomplishments for the day since April 2011. Then in a small world moment, the StartupDigest email list linked to this article from the idonethis.com blog, “Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient” Marc came up with a system:… Continue Reading Tuesday Tip: Anti-ToDo List
On my last two trips, I’ve used United’s electronic boarding pass feature to download a copy of the boarding pass to my iPhone. Thankfully, when I did this, I took a screenshot (simultaneously press the Home and Sleep/Wake/Power buttons) of the 3D barcode. Given the way mobile Safari works, it sometimes tries to do a… Continue Reading Electronic Boarding Passes
Do We Educate for Life?: This question raised by Nic Finelli is as relevant to my day job as it is to Common Core Standards: “How will the Common Core Standards help children to learn how to learn for themselves, to be persistent, to be creative thinkers, to be aware of their surroundings, their unique… Continue Reading muraPOI: December 20, 2012
The Five Success Secrets Of Silicon Valley Women: It’s not just for women. I wonder if I might learn something from this… “With all of the hubris that comes with excelling in Silicon Valley comes the humility to ask for exactly what you need.” (Via +Esther Wojcicki, December 9, 2012) Developer Time: It’s not just… Continue Reading muraPOI: December 19, 2012
Designing Assignments that Accomplish Course Goals: Wait, shouldn’t all assignments do that? We all know that isn’t true. I’ve claimed all along in this MOOC-craze (and even standardized testing), it’s all about the quality of the assessments. Maryellen Weimer writes: “You might think a bit about your course goals. Is this particular assignment helping students… Continue Reading muraPOI: December 17, 2012
Stories. The 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar: Ultimately, it’s *all* about story. (StartupDigest, November 30, 2012) Apollo 13, We Have a Solution: Three part story on how NASA engineered a solution to Apollo 13. If you’ve seen the movie, this is the real deal. And a great read. (StartupDigest, November 9, 2012) In… Continue Reading Friday Fun: Stories
Randomness. The Future of Digital: Look through this slide deck. +Esther Wojcicki made a post pointing out “As mobile increases, all other media decreases”, which is true. But that’s not the only thing to be gleaned from this slide deck, step through to the end. (+Esther Wojcicki, November 29, 2012) Are you where your customers… Continue Reading muraPOI: December 13, 2012
How to Succeed in Education Technology: “Most of today’s education technology startups are doomed to fail…” They’re chasing a trendy space without true, lasting passion for education; They lack a business model that works in education and are afraid to charge their customers; Their investors have consumer Internet expectations in a market with completely different… Continue Reading muraPOI: December 12, 2012
I was trying to setup a Google Nexus 7 to control my Mac Mini. But I had almost no luck in getting the android-vnc-viewer to connect to the Mini (running 10.7.x Server). The trick was to: 3) Select “24-bit color (4 bpp)” in the “Color Format” drop-down menu …connect to my mac via VNC and… Continue Reading Tuesday Tip: Android VNC and Controlling Macs
Why doesn’t Netflix offer “Advanced Search” on their site?: TL;DR they tried and “it wasn’t useful, and thus wasn’t implemented.” The goal is to help users “find movies members will love”. Argument for: Advance search is additive. If users don’t want to use it, they don’t have to. Reponse: Nothing is purely additive unless everyone… Continue Reading muraPOI: December 10, 2012