Toby Shorin: Jobs To Be Done. Our most significant jobs define who we are (identity). Communing with others is one such job that is core to being human. Just as a bee’s job of pollination is central to what a bee is, humans have jobs of socializing. (more)

Peak experience is a term used to describe certain transpersonal and ecstatic states, particularly ones tinged with themes of euphoria, harmonization and interconnectedness. Participants characterize these experiences, and the revelations imparted therein, as possessing an ineffably mystical and spiritual (or overtly religious) quality or essence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_experience (more)

We're Cody and Jody, the brother and sister creative team behind Kicks Condor. We work out of Facebook Labs, prototyping future personalities that can capture the public's imagination, much in the same way that Disney characters and comic book characters provided archetypes in the past. https://www.kickscondor.com/ https://twitter.com/kickscondor (more)

Essay by Donella Meadows. (more)

... for a Reality Hacker... because Your Politics Are Boring (more)

*Montessori education is an educational approach developed by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori. Montessori education is practiced in an estimated 20,000 schools worldwide, serving children from birth to eighteen years old.[1] (more)

Higher Ground is dedicated to mainstreaming and modernizing Montessori education.... Higher Ground operates schools for students from birth through adolescence, provides training to educators, and more. https://www.tohigherground.com/ (more)

Higher Ground Education Raises $30M Series D and Acquires Award-Winning FreshGrade Platform to Accelerate ‘Montessori Everywhere’ Mission. “With all the challenges this past year has brought, it has also created a window to do something dramatically different in education,” said Ray Girn, Founder and CEO of Higher Ground Education. “The Series D investment allows us to continue to be actively and aggressively advocating for Montessori pedagogy as the way of the future.” (more)

Higher Ground Education is thrilled to officially announce a new venture: its first high school, the Academy of Thought and Industry. ATI will open in San Francisco in September of 2018, and is accepting student applications for its inaugural class. Higher Ground's mission is to bring Montessori education (Montessori school to the world—providing a quality Montessori education to as many students as possible, from birth to adulthood. With ATI, Higher Ground takes a significant step towards this goal, extending its early childhood and elementary offerings for the first time all the way through high school. The school's program has been designed from the ground up by Michael Strong, one of the most experienced educators specializing in alternative, high-performance high schools. ATI’s mission is to guide students to independently cultivate their own academic, professional, and personal success.

The software part of AltSchool. https://www.altitudelearning.com (more)

AltSchool rebrands itself Altitude Learning as cofounders step aside. In the early years, AltSchool expanded what it called “lab schools” at a rapid pace, adding locations in New York and scouting sites in cities like Chicago. But operating schools is complicated, particularly when your goal, in part, is to reinvent the very idea of school. The company retrenched, consolidating its ambitions into just four school sites. And now, it is making a more formal break. (more)

Higher Ground Education and Altitude Learning Partner to Modernize Education. Higher Ground will assume ownership of Altitude Learning’s technology platform, an industry-leading LMS that enables learner-centered education. (more)

My bucket-term for schools and similar institutions that provide a more Generative experience than Factory Schooling for Educating Kids. See also Product Oriented Unschooling, How To Raise Reality Hackers (more)

Meta: see (2008-11-07) Boniwell What Is Eudaimonia? The Concept Of Eudaimonic WellBeing And Happiness (more)

The Traveling Wilburys (sometimes shortened to the Wilburys) were an English–American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. Originating from an idea discussed by Harrison and Lynne during the sessions for Harrison's 1987 album Cloud Nine, the band formed in April 1988 after the five members united to record a bonus track for Harrison's next European single. When this collaboration, "Handle with Care", was deemed too good for such a limited release, the group agreed to record a full album, titled Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. Following Orbison's death in December 1988, the Wilburys released a second album, which they titled Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, in 1990. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_Wilburys (more)

John Seely Brown and DouglasThomas have a book out called A New Culture Of Learning ISBN:1456458884 about Educating Kids. Typically, when we think of Culture, we think of an existing, stable entity that changes and evolves over long periods of time. In A New Culture, Thomas and Brown explore a second sense of culture, one that responds to its surroundings organically. It not only adapts, it integrates change into its process as one of its environmental variables. By exploring play, innovation, and the cultivation of the imagination as cornerstones of learning, the authors create a vision of learning for the future that is achievable, scalable and one that grows along with the technology that fosters it and the people who engage with it. The result is a new form of culture in which knowledge is seen as fluid and evolving, the personal is both enhanced and refined in relation to the collective, and the ability to manage, negotiate and participate in the world is governed by the play of the imagination. (more)

Ken Robinson has a book out called The Element ISBN:0670020478. The element is the point at which natural Talent meets personal Passion.

Silicon Valley School Reform player - ran schools 2013-2019, then rebranded as Altitude Learning (more)

A web proxy Private Web that layers a Wiki namespace and auto-linking over non-wiki browser-readable pages, e.g EMail, other websites? (more)

A browser extension is a small software module for customizing a web browser. Browsers typically allow a variety of extensions, including user interface modifications, ad blocking, and cookie management.[1] Browser plug-ins are a separate type of module. The main difference is that extensions are usually just source code, but plug-ins are always executables (i.e. object code). As of 2021, plug-ins have been deprecated by most browsers, while extensions are widely used. The most popular browser, Google Chrome,[2] has over 100,000 extensions available but no longer supports plug-ins.[3][4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_extension