“When technology works, it’s invisible… No matter how good our computing technologies become, they will never write humans out of the picture altogether.”— p.280 You would be interested in this book if… You are an educator or school leader navigating the rise of generative AI, and want a broader perspective. You want to understand not…
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A dark future worth looking at “Their knowledge was more in the realm of knowing how to ask machines to do things than in knowing how to do things themselves.” I picked up Ken Liu’s All That We See or Seem on the recommendation of Anand Mahadevan, Executive Director of CAIS. He suggested it as…
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“In truth, research findings about technology are almost always more nuanced. Admittedly, nuanced findings don’t make for the snappiest headlines.” (p.17) Few topics in education generate more passionate opinions than teenagers and technology – specifically ‘screen time’ and ‘GenAI’. This book focuses on screen time, but much can be applied to our current conversations…
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“True kindness—the kind that communicates with compassion, leads with honesty (not ego), holds people accountable, and creates cultures that build self-esteem—is anything but weak. It is strong. And in school leadership, I promise that it is transformative.” (p.1) When did kindness become confused with weakness? Some of the strongest school leaders I have worked with…
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“Meaningful exploration, I will argue, involves making an active choice to pursue a course that requires effort and carries the risk of failure—what the mythologist Joseph Campbell called ‘a bold beginning of an uncertain outcome.’” (p.10) You would be interested in this book if: You’re an educator or leader who believes curiosity is a muscle…
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What Could Possibly Go Right?! “Even among AI developers, some believe that future instances of superintelligent AIs could represent an extinction level threat to humanity… As hard as it may be to accurately predict the future, it’s even harder to stop it… That’s because as much as collaboration defines us, competition does too… and that…
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“The argument over whether Elon Musk is a genius is really an argument about what our society values and what it is prepared to tolerate. A suite of behaviors that would otherwise be inexcusable are forgiven when they are the price of greatness.”— Helen Lewis, p.3 Helen Lewis opens The Genius Myth not with a…
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Thanks to Jason Rogers, my podcast-partner-in-learning, for recommending this book to me after listening to Claude Silver at a conference. This book is about her life and coming into how to lead herself and herself with others. If you’ve been following the “Leadership Lab”, part of the Cohort 21 community with @jmedved, @tfaucher and @gvogt,…
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In the epic tale, Jason lashed himself to the mast of his ship, commanded his crew of Argonauts to put wax in their ears, all to avoid crashing upon the rocks of the Sirens. But why didn’t Circe recommend wax in his own ears? Why was he yelling at his crew to change course? How…
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Book Review: A New Way to Think by Roger Martin ~Rethinking Strategy, Culture, and the People We Serve “When a model is failing you, it doesn’t mean you’re failing—it means it’s time for a new model.” ~ Roger Martin I picked up Roger Martin’s A New Way to Think expecting a book on strategy. What…
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