Laconismos
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El reloj avanza
Reunión de última hora un viernes por la tarde. La descripción de tu “nuevo” puesto frente a ti, la correcta, la que debiste recibir desde el principio. Una victoria. Giro de guion: tienes que solicitar y competir para este nuevo puesto. Una victoria de corta duración. ¡Qué mierda!
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Bad Interview, Worse Argument
Ten scholars from Vanderbilt and WashU in St. Louis published a report on the state of humanities scholarship. Anthropology came out worst. Days later, the president of a professional association defended their work, poorly. A reporter wrote an article about it and an honest debate got sidetracked.
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Reframing Reorganizations
What if the first question in a reorganization wasn’t “what changes on the chart,” but “what does this decision tell people about what we value”? Not instead of the org chart. Not instead of the budget. Before them. As the question the others have to answer to before anything ships.
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El marco invisible
¿Y si la primera pregunta en una reorganización no fuera “qué cambia en el organigrama”, sino “qué mensaje envía esta decisión sobre lo que realmente valoramos”? Como la pregunta que otras preguntas tienen que responder antes de que cualquier decisión se anuncie.
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Right about the fire, wrong about the extinguisher
Jeffrey Selingo has spent decades watching the business of higher education from closer than most of us ever get, and when he says the underlying model is breaking, that’s someone who’s been inside the machinery telling you what he sees. I don’t have that vantage point — just a few honest questions from someone who’s…
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The leadership institute that never needed an AI session
In June 2013, I spent a week in Evanston, Illinois learning about technology and leadership. None of the sessions focus ed on a specific technology. One of the lessons was to make defensible decisions about sustaining or disruptive innovation, not to assume disruption was the only defensible choice.
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Four Girders: The Book
After more than thirty years in higher education, most of them helping students — across a desk, in a classroom, and at my own kitchen table — I’ve written a book, and I’ve made it free. It’s called The Four Girders Framework: Becoming a Successful Learner in the AI Era. It isn’t a study-skills textbook.…
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Mi libro
La inteligencia artificial se sienta hoy junto a los estudiantes, y aunque los fundamentos del aprendizaje no han cambiado, el terreno sí. De un blog que arrancaba y se detenía nació un libro completo: The Four Girders Framework: Becoming a Successful Learner in the AI Era. Los fundamentos de siempre, ahora frente a los nuevos…
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La Escalera de Fidel
Ayer fui a tu pequeño taller y me topé con tu escalera, Fidel. Esa que tantas veces te acompañó, fiel como una sombra. Y me di cuenta de que está llena de ti: marcas de pintura, salpicaduras, gotas y trazos multicolores. Cada peldaño, cada color, cuenta una historia que solo tú y ella conocen. ¡Si…
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Natural Contradictions
In a recent Washington Post opinion piece, Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argue that children need natural supports such as family, nutrition, and exercise rather than medicalized approaches like mandatory mental health screenings. On the surface, this call to strengthen natural sources of resilience is appealing…