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Alex Usher has an interesting theory to explain the lack of interest in post-secondary education funding in Canada: "It is not so much that higher education isn’t seen as an answer to the problem of growth (though that is part of the issue).  No, the...

Clark Quinn opines, "My short (and admittedly cheeky) statement about education is that they’re wrong on two things, the curriculum and pedagogy, other than that they’re fine." More specifically, he says, "Most universities aren’t doing a good job of curriculum, focusing...

This is an exceptionally effective demonstration of some of the things websites can do to draw conclusions about you. How Normal Am I? is an art project/tech demo website by Tijmen Schep that I...

This post is an introduction to a short report (6 page PDF) on a company called Avature, which provides recruiting and onboarding technology for large companies. It reads a lot loke marketing content, so take it with a grain of salt....

Like Doug Belshaw, I take a really hard line on notifications - I accept them for text messages and Strava, but that's it. Why? Well as Doug Belshaw says, our "‘social norms’ have been shot to pieces by companies employing machine learning to growth hack the human brain." In...

I've seen this item (11 page PDF) through a few sources now. The idea of 'data visceralization' is to take existing data and to represent it...