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!
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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Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book (review) of the week: Kieran Egan’s “The Educated Mind” This book review (which won the ACX book review contest) introduced me to the ideas of someone I had never heard about before — Kieran Egan, the (recently deceased) Canadian educational philosopher. The review lays out Egan’s visio …
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Clear Thinking
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results, by Shane Parrish. Like half the planet, it seems, we are fans of Shane Parrish’s podcast The Knowledge Project. In Clear Thinking, Shane distills the best of what he’s learned over the years, both from his …
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Marie Curie: A Life
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Marie Curie: A Life by Susan Quinn. Marie Curie is one of the greatest scientists of the last several centuries. Yet people often know little of the life of this extraordinary woman who helped unravel the mysteries of radiation—to her own, and her daughter’s, ultimate peril …
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