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  • P&E

    … pre emptive dump (When I first started this) Over the past few weeks, I’ve been in wedding/vacation/travel mode. The experience was great as an opportunity to disconnect from many of the stressors and facades of daily life and making connections and being present. In my teaching world I’m a massive proponent of face to…

  • Quick stories are destroying conversation

    Quick stories are destroying conversation

    I’m in the middle of reading (listening to actually) Turkle’s Reclaiming Conversation and it seems to be a continual stream of examples describing just how the brevity of phone based stories (messages, social media, images) had had a significant impact on the way that quite literally billions of people communicate. I mused about this earlier…

  • Remixing stories or Isn’t the Encyclopedia dead?

    Remixing stories or Isn’t the Encyclopedia dead?

    The last time I posted I was thinking about how stories have value because they have some manner of permanence due to the media that is used to transmit them. Moving away from the digital ephemera that I talked about in that post, a visit to Disneyland, and the “Summer of Statues” got me thinking…

  • Stories everywhere

    I started poking at this idea back in October of 2017, but it wasn’t until earlier this month that a story in The Atlantic helped crystallize things for me. Over the last year and a bit, it seems that through the move fast and steal… sorry break stuff manner of Facebook, stories as a post format have…

  • Mandela and Obama, Stories have three legs

    It’s been quite a while since I posted last and I’ve been sitting and stewing over a whole raft of ideas after listening to a number of books and podcasts. Two books crystalized some of what I was thinking about last time in the “remixing of ideas” post. The first is “Becoming” by Michelle Obama.…

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