Notes

anger is a cloak

Anti social media is updates only from those closest to you and no ads

Applications are programs with a context

Arete

art is about fiction even when it's attempting to tell the truth

Artistic power is available to anyone at anytime

Artists must not judge their creations, leave that to the audience

As Information Architects, we're chefs and we see the world as food.

Ask for stories, not answers

Ask yourself who you are without the doing

Asking good questions is how you build relationships

attention without trust is worthless

attraction is about being curious

August 9, 2024 AI Can’t Kill Anything Worth Preserving

Authentic audience leads to interdisciplinary thinking

Automating feedback using AI tools can be beneficial for students

Avoid suffering twice

Balancing your inputs is crucial for people who do intellectual work

Be a scientist about medical mysteries

be like the magpie when it comes to wholesale systems

Beauty artists do not create it. They participate in it

Being a dad is simply a function of your ability to shape goodness of fit by tapping into your values and strengths

Being articulate comes from writing and talking

Binging sitcoms are a great for ELLs to learn to think in English

bowing to the universe is both outward and inward

Braces were a constraint

Break Down the Steps And Take the Smallest Viable Action

Bumper Sticker Culture gives the illusion of conversation

"Bus" in Urdu means Enough

ChatGPT is a sociopath

Children are natural magicians because of their preoperational nature

choose to defuse

chronic use of AI for work could result in people not wanting to work with you

Claim responsibility for your response to urges, not the urges themselves

Clear mind vs. acceptance of the mess

Clear writing produces clear thinking

Coaching is drawing out, mentoring is putting in

Coaching is the missing link between diagnosis and accountability

Comic sans is easier to write and read

Conceptual Blending

confidence is believing in your own experience

Consider the age of research so that you're staying relevant

cool comes in cycles.

Corporations are trying to be more human, humans are trying to be more like corporations

creativity as gardening

Creativity is a slow and plodding process, not a flash of busyness

Creativity is a spiritual practice

cultural complexes act like psychic kidneys

Curiosity can be embedded in the work

dashboards are meant to tell you things you don't know or prompt you to do something

Debate's function is to defend, dialogue's function is to better understand

Decide what parts of the creative process you'd like to keep human

Decisions can be driven by a combination of data and intuition

Defects cost less even if they're still functional

Demolished masculine and feminine power

Disagreement is difference in belief, division is persistent disagreement and without resolution

Discover without algorithms for a broader exposure

Do the strategic things first

Don't argue to win, argue to learn

don’t crowdsource your parenting decisions

don't give a drug a benefit that it doesn't actually have

Don't punish, teach skills

don't put it down, put it away

doomscrolling

Driving and showering are ordinary mindfulness moments

Each instance of an AI chatbot may use different approaches to solve problems

eat the frog

Education has always been algorithmic, it is now time to break that paradigm in the age of AI

Education is a pendulum swing between whole student and outcomes

Educational research can impede learning, therefore we must consider the cost of doing such research

educators are not co developers

Effective writing is about getting stuff done, and beautiful writing is about aesthetics, style, and perhaps beauty

emotional reactivity is a key indicator of a cultural complex

engagement is worthless, servitude is king

English speaking colleges tend to get higher ranked than non english speaking colleges and universities

Entrepreneurship means you'll never "arrive." You are always becoming

Every religion is a technology used to improve our psychological wounds and trauma.

everything feels alien and nothing feels alien

Evidence is less important to researchers than practical applications of the research

Excessive social media use leads to derealization and depersonalizaton and even suicide ideation

Experimental Design

facial familiarity could be part of a learning strategy

Fathers brains don't change as much as mothers or potentially it's about the primary parent

fathers treat their children differently by gender not because of the child but because of the father

Fear is the primary cause of procrastination

Feedback is an important ingredient of any job search

feelings aren't inherent agreements

finishing each other's song lyrics

Fink's taxonomy

Fixed mindset is a learned behavior from parents or caretakers

funk is about what you leave out

GenAI may become appified or be a swiss army knife

GenAI only saves you time if you're an expert

General AI tools do not know good pedagogical techniques without further training

generative AI is geometrically inclined and not exactly like the next word predictor on your phone

Get in the GenAI pool, there is no way to drown

Getting out of bed isn't an accomplishment

gift giving is relational, not transactional

governments make policy decisions on standardized data

Grade retention may lead to negative outcomes overall

gratefulness requires specificity

Growth mindset

Habits can control you or you can control your habits

Haikus are a great structure because they're so demanding and force you to make decisions

hate the company, not the tech

Have A Surreal Moment, Everyday

Having a process to process helps you make sense of life

Having a traditional job can be dehumanizing

Holistic understanding and learning is not a linear or algorithmic process

How a Prism Works

how to give the right advice

How we label students affects how they construct themselves

Hunting for a job is like being on the dancefloor

ideas and expression are distinct ideas

If a user needs to double check AI's output, it is sometimes more efficient to not use AI at all

if AI is constantly offering help, it will be very tempting for students to take it

if it's hysterical, it's historical

If we don't grieve, we can't be transformed by our grief

ignore perceptual boundaries to overcome them

important components of feedback are honesty, thoroughness, and trust

In an AI Powered World, It's Time to Make Education More Human Than Ever Before

In Ed Policy, even if you you have statistical significance, it still might not make sense to act on results

In relationships, let out the tension in small bursts

In this new era of GenAI, authentic audience will be more important than ever

Incompetence is necessary to grow expertise and knowledge

influencers are some of the least regulated and most addicted people

Informative titles and chapter names for a book end up being more impactful and useful than obfuscating the point

Instead of asking children about their ranking in competitive events, ask about their experience

intellectual writing is engaging and rewriting the work of other thinkers

intellectual writing is engaging with and rewriting the work of other thinkers

Intention to treat keeps all participants, treatment on treat only includes participants who adhered to the treatment protocol

interdisciplinary studies allow us to ask dumb questions

Internal validity is refers to causality and external validity is about generalizing to the public

Is adaptation to technology cheating

It is better to learn from an intermediate than an expert

It is easier to go from nothing to something than it is to go from something to more of something

It takes two weeks to write a dissertation once you lock in your data

it's about how good a teacher you are, it's about how well students can leverage your

It's better to be quietly active than actively quiet

It's easier to get funding for a more general upgrade to education than for a specific set of students

It's not a win when kids fawn or fight

It's not about getting the most done, but the right things done

journaling is like smoking a cigarette

Joystick Coaching

Judgment is fleeting and influenced by many external unrelated factors

Keep capture tools available during low tech moments

keep friction where it matters

Kids experience oxytocin differently with each parent

King and Queen size beds were introduced later than full and twin due to economic prosperity

Know what matters and what doesn't

knowing vs. doing gap

learn the difference between the dip and the downward spiral

listen in complete sentences

LLMs mean we can be in curious mode, not analytical mode, most of the time

Look for the fear

luck is about being ready for possibility

make sense of your life through narrative but don't live your life like a narrative

make your list tasklist deeper with core values

Making experimental music is a form of rebellion

Making learning relevant is easier said than done

Masterly inactivity

matter arises from consciousness, not the other way around

meetings are the most commonly used organizational strategy and also the most dysfunctional

Metathinking is a new skill in conjunction with AI ethics that teaches how to think about thinking in this new era

Midlife crisis is really midlife clarity

Mindfulness is how we live forever in the moment

Most of reddit is people wanting validation, community, and connection

most people don't think about you, but some do

most problems are self created and perpetuated by our repetiton of old cycles

Most relationship problems are perpetual

Motivation to learn comes from a greater desire

Multidisciplinary engineering is a future trend given the changing marketplace

name it yourself or let it tell you it's name

Natural selection has no purpose or goal, it is merely the result of some genes winning out over others

never interrupt someone who is having a hard time explaining because that's their thinking process

Ninety percent of all resistance is caused by overprompting

No one gets sabotaged by their impostor syndrome over how bad their handwriting is

No one is truly an expert on the future of AI

Not getting medical tests done because you're scared is inefficient because it's happening anyway

Now not how

Numbers are not neutral

obsession over tiny predictors

Obsidian and other PKM are the labs and ideas are the test tubes

older people write flatter melodies

One of the biggest challenges schools in this new age will have is creating efficient learning experiences for all personality and temperament types

One way to deal with anxiety is to ask yourself if what you believe is true

optimizing and taking shortcuts is a human thing to do

Own Your Career

Parents are conditioned to see blemishes in their children like artists

Part of the challenge for education researchers is understanding all of the different disciplines that create education

Part of why people feel respected in new jobs is that they come in without any baggage

Pedagogy of poverty means that the students condition teachers instead of teachers focusing on good teaching

people are buying physical things more

People can easily and unknowingly become their trauma

People crave familiarity

People do not know what they want

people who have kids with certain needs are attracted to private and charter schools

Personal Branding is about memory, not invention

Personalized AI Tutoring could learn to a much more narrow scope in learning

PKM elicits critical thinking

play day

plus minus next method

Poetry as a supplement to research papers

Power Reversal Play

practice accepting the separate realities created when someone misunderstands you

Provide value in a way that is not directly tied to your time

Putting a chess piece on the board is harder for an AI than winning a game of chess

Quality of thought is a matter of input vs. output

quasirandom study

Randomization is the gold standard for proving causation

Rapid Review

Re Thinking Task Execution

real magic is simply a product of belief and perception

recipes are poetry

recreate masterpieces by hand

relational teaching vs. transactional teaching

relationships are built by drops in a bucket

Relationships are drops of water in a bucket

religion usually deviates in brainy and folksy versions of the religion

rest improves relationships

Romanticizing the process is necessary to get into flow state

RSS is disliked by businesses because they don't want you to control your feed

Saboteurs put our brain on alert and can create both physical and metaphysical symptoms

say your wacky ideas out loud because someone's wacky idea once saved the world in some way

Saying yes to the right things expands possibility, saying no the wrong things allows for expansion of possibility

scaling AI breaks at a certain point

science often follows intuitive noticings

science takes time to reveal truth

self sabotage is actually self protection

Sharing media is important as it ripples outward

Siblings must pick different niches than the first born or previous borns

Simulating the future is a key missing skill of LLMs

sleep is hard because of the fomo we had as kids

Slogans replace thought

slop is independent from AI

Smaller class sizes lead to better outcomes

Smart notes is the academic's version of GTD

social media rewards talking but not listening

Some songs are not known for a melody or a lyric but a sound

Sometimes you're supposed to be higher up

sounds inspire the act of awareness

Spiritual growth is a matter of digging deeply beyond what these words or entrypoints mean or are

standardized tests flatten

Statistical Power

status quo vs reinvented learning

Stop consistent aggressors but provide room for rehab and growth

students care more about their socialization than about having the perfect teacher or tutor

Students cheat despite understanding it's wrong

Students have been trained in school to think algorithmically

swimming upstream in music

systematic literature review

Take care of me for you

talking about ourselves too much can lead to more depression, not less

teachers grade with AI students who are using AI

teaching is fundamentally a human activity

teaching writing for a test is teaching bad writing

technology should work for schools and not the other way around

tell the experts they're wrong

Test Statistic

Text vs. Talk when you're upset

the best gift you can give a recipient of your writing is being as concise as possible

The best way to keep up with tech is to start with a goal and be unafraid to break things

the bigger the dream, the bigger the resistance

the code of academic writing

The cycle of cool

The Energy of Emo Music is Teen Energy

The four curricula for improving student life

the future is friction

the future of learning works best with things that don't scale

the human brain doesn't have a manual, therefore it is an intuitive machine

The idea of good education is inherited

The importance of games with levels

The importance of unstructured thinking

the job of humans is to argue against conventional wisdom

the knowledge rich get richer while the knowledge poor get poorer

The meaning of life is whatever you say it is

the more physically fit you are, the less you are distracted by physical irritations

the most successful academics are talented in both research and networking

The need for change as a result of AI in schools is simply an illumination of long standing issues

The news and the viewer feed off of one another

The pandemic was difficult depending on your values

The People are Just As Important as the Work in a Job

the smartest person is the room

The stories we tell ourselves matter notes from Inside Out 2

The Uniqueness of Non Algorithmic Suggestions

The way a computer knows what to do next is different from how a human knows

The way that we transform a room when we enter it is our presence

The way we think critically will change in the next few years

the world is simply a product of our thinking and therefore it can be changed through thinking

Theories vs. Models vs. Frameworks

there are no bad choices

there is always a season of change

There is no atomic unit of time, a moment is as long as we want it to be

There is no predictive power in most application materials so focus on competency and psychology

There is no revenge if you're living well

There is no such thing as educational theories, it draws from all the other disciplines

Things mark time in ways that only become apparently eventually

To become prolific, you must be prolific

To make the most of coaching, you must follow through

To move out of GenAI phase one, be curious and start with the goal in mind

to really serve a client, you must drop your training and see them as a human

to see something like an artist would, deconstruct the concept in your mind

transactional model of education

Trauma dumping is the mechanism of social media

Treasure scavenger hunts offer several psychological benefits

Treat AI Like an Alien for Best Results

Try to polish a turd

Turn a concept into an interactive toy with AI

unclenching

Understanding the UI for a computer is far easier than understanding the UI of being a human

Use intuition and somatic understanding as clues

using AI does not actually cost much water at an individual level

using AI visibly may make the reader feel less valued

valuable content to a reader means you are telling them they think wrong and need to think differently

Value is malleable and dependant on the context

vocabulary is an important skill for life because words affect people

We are contributing to the rise of facism by using social media products

We are in control of our own time

we are stuck in a trade mindset and need to adopt a more fluid way of thinking about skills

we crave the 90s because we crave certainty and the 90s are over so they are certain

We habitualize to protect ourselves in turbulent times

we may be more inclined these days to take recommendations from algorithm over a person

We must include gifted children in the category of students for whom standard education does not work and provide services as needed

We must not adopt an ignorance is bliss approach when it comes to AI in education

We must think deeply about what it means to be an educational institution

We must update learning models before applying AI

we naturally anthropomorphize as humans to our detriment and to our benefit

we need less advice and more curiosity

we only learn lessons when we've experienced the consequences of our actions

we should not center AI in education

we stay chained to the present unless we have an attractive future

we think our problems are big and that our peers problems are small and vice versa

we underestimate how much others enjoy talking to us and how much we'll enjoy those conversations

we want to feel like the creator of our own work

Weird is just abnormal for you

we're bad at being considerate to our future self

What we hear in a song is what is different about the one we are currently listening to

What we remember is subject to change

what we watch is both what we like and what we don’t

when an old media type goes out of fashion its worst quality becomes its selling point

Why Parents call you fat and bald

wishing harm on others damages yourself since you are part of the universal consciousness

With AI, delegate not substitute

writing is more important than ever despite AI influence

Xennial remember more waiting time

you are indeed the traffic you complain about

You are the parent now, you provide the magic

You are what you eat, and what you eat eats you

You can be a prompt engineer or an iterative prompt artist

you can either be motivated by curiosity or by shame and guilt

you can either be motivated by curiosity or by shame and guilt and the choice is really yours

You can sense the season change before the weather actually changes

You can't buy an ice cream cone

You can't create unless you accept that something could go wrong

you can't renegotiate the terms of life

You have power when your pre frontal cortex is aware of your limbic system

You have to Maslow before you can Bloom

You must know what activities you want to grapple with, since otherwise you'll want to automate your whole life with AI

You need to root for other people's children to create a more cohesive community and society

You probably won't find your system in a preconfigured template

your client is the star of the show and you are the guide

Your emotions are not your child's responsibility

You’re not a parent. You’re a substitute frontal lobe.

you're only an asshole to some

YouTube videos are direct evidence that revision is writing

zettelkasten and PKM is mise en place for creatives