It's not all stuff I care about, but some is.
Our top book this month is Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, by Tim Harford. We love this
book, which speaks to the extraordinary power of serendipity and
seeming sloppiness. One of our favorite writers, Adam Grant, summed Messy
up this way: “Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want
to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your
world.” Adam’s own terrific complementary book is Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World.
Barb at DevLearn
Barb will be at one of her favorite conferences—DevLearn,
in Las Vegas, on November 14-16th. Unlike many more
academically-focused conferences, DevLearn is eminently practical and
has marvelous sessions and pre-conference workshops. Along with giving
her own talk (check out
the 45 second video), Barb will be taking the pre-conference workshops
on the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite and on Mastering the Visualization of
Storyboarding for eLearning. We must always keep learning, after all!
Help in discovering “Super-learners” Scott Young is an intrepid “Marco Polo of Learning.” (We featured him in the bonus interview at the end of week 2 of Learning How to Learn).
Scott is looking for superlearners—people who have completed,
interesting, aggressive self-education projects in the past. If you fall
into this category, please email Scott at personal@scotthyoung.com.
