Category: Antifragile

Agile Fundamentals: Graeme’s DIY non-MBA, MBA continues…

Jul 17, 2018

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Graeme Smith

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After a brief interruption of work (required to pay bills), I’m super excited to sign up today for the next component of my non-MBA, MBA. This is my commitment to my own personal and professional development in 2018. So far, I’ve dipped into Service Design, Project Management, Shoe School, and an online course called Designing…
Four Tools For Building Cool Stuff Online: Or How To Start Thinking Outside The Box

Oct 10, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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I went to the Supercharge conference the other day in Wellington. This was a business conference… nothing to do with literacy, numeracy or even education (I know… thank goodness right…?) Lots of cool stuff. The coolest though was the 40-minute presentation by Justin Wilcox of Customer Development Labs. At the start of his presentation, he…
Cooking Is The Best Metaphor For Understanding What Actually Happens In Teaching

Sep 8, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in anti-fragile, Antifragile, cooking, Education, improvisation, innovation, Literacy, Metaphors, Numeracy, Professional Development, Taleb, teaching

Cooking is the best metaphor for understanding what actually happens in teaching.
Becoming Antifragile in Education – 4 Things You Can Do Right Now

Jan 3, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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How to become antifragile so every blow makes you stronger Nassem Taleb is an expert on risk and probability and he recommends in his latest book that we become less fragile, more robust, and actually antifragile. This is more than just Sissy Resilience… and this means that when the stuff hits the fan you actually bounce back…