Maybe fashion is an antidote to knowledge. It seems not to follow functionality or experience, not even the logic of swarm intelligence. It breaks free from the constraints of predictability and user research and is as much breaking the rules as it is establishing new conformism. Change can be as…

— Man’s Search for Method To succeed in the self-help business, you need three things: a good story, good-looking charts, and an acronym: “Here is how Stella solved her problem” “72% of all people have this problem” “Just follow the eight easy steps of the FURZWURM-method!” For people to…

You know, it used to be a sin. In the Middle Ages. But curiosity has come a long way: From the pyre into its own university. Curiosity-based education means: Don’t cram knowledge into students’ heads! Don’t lecture! Start with the students’ own questions and interests, then respond. Let students be…

I guess at some point I had to write this all up. So here we go. One day I woke up and was a radical: I don't use a smartphone, I don't use Amazon, Apple, or Facebook in any of its variants. And I was able to avoid Google more or…

Ooo, that beautiful dream of uploading our minds to the cloud! Eternal life, never-ending bliss, and absolutely no boundaries: skydiving into lava streams, picknicking on top of the Twin Towers, and making love with Venus herself — the goddess or the planet, whichever you like. What a brave new world…

Just don't say we teach Critical Thinking. That's too cheap, too small, and basically useless. Here is why. 1. Asking for a discussion is not having this discussion. Beware of people who talk about things instead of doing them. Critical thinking is no exception. Those who keep insisting how important…

— Science is Pay-Walled You know, there is a strange link between sci-hub and fake news. Reminder: Sci-hub is a filesharing portal for pirated scientific papers. It was set up by a kazakhian scientist after she realised her university was too poor to provide her with access to state of the…

Isn’t a private university a contradiction in terms? Knowledge and education must be public goods, “universal” even, as the name suggests; And the idea that education should be an end in itself, and not for profit, is at least as old as Socrates — who was (unlike Marx) adamantly opposed…

Bang! Always start with a bang to blow your readers’ minds. And use your keywords: keywords, keywords, keywords! You want to be #found. Not just by anyone: You want to be found by your most precious customer: the Google algorithm. Stroke it. Caress it. Feed it. It likes short sentences…