Cheery Friday e-mails
Every Friday I send a “Cheery Friday” email chock full of insights about learning and changing to a million registered learners from the massive open online course (“MOOC”) Learning How to Learn. To receive these emails, just register for the course here (it’s free, and registration takes only a few seconds). “See” you on Friday!
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values, by Brian Christian, is a surprising contender for the most important book on learning of the decade. Christian tackles the complex challenge of ensuring that artificial intelligence remains aligned with human values as it grows more po …
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All Things Being Equal
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month All Things Being Equal: Why Math Is the Key to a Better World, by John Mighton, presents a compelling case for the transformative power of mathematics education. Drawing on his extensive experience as the founder of JUMP Math, Mighton argues that by fostering intellectual po …
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Unveiling the Surprising Benefits of Forgetting
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! The Forgotten Advantage: Unveiling the Surprising Benefits of Forgetting Do you easily forget? New research shows that forgetting is actually good for us and required for our minds to work best. How exactly does forgetting help our cognitive, creative, and decision making abilities? And how d …
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Get Better at Anything
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Quarter Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery, by Scott Young. Scott Young is a well-known blogger and author who has written extensively on learning, skill acquisition, and productivity–he is also interviewed in our very own Learning How to Learn. In his latest book, Get …
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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, by Ethan Mollick. We think Ethan Mollick is one of the best writers about generative AI around—we never miss his Substack postings. Not surprisingly then, Mollick’s Co-Intelligence is a fascinating exploration of the rapidly evol …
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Wicked Problems
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month WICKED PROBLEMS: How to Engineer a Better World by Guru Madhavan. This ingenious and important book is about the cloudiest, most difficult-to-solve of all the problems we encounter–the “wicked” problems. The author Guru Madhavan, a systems engineer and the Norman R. Augusti …
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The Trusted Learning Advisor
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month The Trusted Learning Advisor: The Tools, Techniques and Skills You Need to Make L&D a Business Priority, Keith Keating. With the advent of generative AI, we feel learning and development (“L&D”) is one of the hottest areas around. After all, L&D experts can now …
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The Worlds I See
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI, by Fei-Fei Li. In her memoir The Worlds I See, AI pioneer Dr. Fei-Fei Li offers rare insight into the human story behind modern artificial intelligence advances. Detailing her journey from her childh …
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The AI Playbook
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month (to be released February 6th!) The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment, by Eric Siegel. Whether you are an AI expert or know nothing about AI, this book will teach you, through compelling examples of success and failure, what machine learning p …
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Between the State and the Schoolhouse
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month Between the State and the Schoolhouse: Understanding the Failure of Common Core, by Tom Loveless. Now that we’re largely back on track after the epidemic-related school shutdowns, it’s a good time to also get back on track in what’s going on more generally with education. I …
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