How to Argue With Someone You Think Is Wrong
A game theorist set out four rules for criticising an idea. The first three have nothing to do with attacking it, and almost nobody gets past them.
2 min read →The Courage to Be Boring
British Cycling had won a single Olympic gold in nearly a century. Then a new coach started measuring pillows. What changed had nothing to do with talent and everything to do with tolerating dull work.
2 min read →Learn, Unlearn, Relearn: The Part Schools Skip
Learning is the easy third. Unlearning is where the cost is, because it requires admitting a belief you built something around was wrong. Why Nokia's engineers saw it coming and its leadership could not.
3 min read →What School Leaders Can Do About Curiosity
A wall in Kalkaji, a computer, and no instruction at all. What that experiment implies for a principal with a syllabus to finish, a board result to protect and no room in the timetable.
3 min read →What Is Learnacy?
Literacy and numeracy are no longer a sufficient description of an educated person. Learnacy is the third competency - the capacity to keep learning long after anyone is grading you for it. Where the word came from, and what it looks like in practice.
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