January 2012
10 posts
What is it like to have an understanding of very... →
The Rise of the New Groupthink →
From the NYTimes:
SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in.
But there’s a problem...
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's... →
Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity.
“Finland’s dream was that we want to have a good public education for every child regardless of where they go to school or what kind of families they come from, and many even in Finland...
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Music Monday
I’l just leave this here.
Kimbra - Vows Plain Gold Ring (Nina Simone cover), Good Intent, Settle Down
Trails and Ways - Temporal Chills, Midnight City (M83 cover), No Wisdom
Brett Dennen - Loverboy / So Much More Sydney (I’ll Come Running), Ain’t No Reason, Darling Do Not Fear
Los Campesinos - Hello Sadness Songs About Your Girlfriend
Miike Snow - Miike Snow A Horse is Not a...
Top 5 finds of the week
Overheard on the Goldman Sachs Elevator
Codeacademy
Shit Girls Say
Levels (SNES edition) by Avicii / DJ&
Toaster Oven breakfast sandwiches
