María Albert

One “must” for this week

The skills we think make us irreplaceable might not be the ones that actually do.

In a candid interview, AI researcher Karina Nguyen reveals that while artificial intelligence is mastering traditionally valued 'hard skills' like analysis and writing, it's struggling with human abilities we often take for granted.

Her insight... See more

Inspiration is not something that you can will onto yourself, and once you free your mind of the pressure to feel inspired, you

• What's relevant?

• What questions should we be asking?

• What's the most important thing?

• What would make you a little more uncomfortable?

• What would be your first move as CEO?

• What is the world telling you?

• How could you put yourself out of business?

• What should we start, stop, and continue?

• How much time have you thought about your team... See more

Ripples of Impact is a concept previously discussed here at School of Thought. The idea is to expand the ROI (return on investment) in education to see the ROI (ripples of impact). The concept encourages sharing lasting effects beyond immediate instructional outcomes.

For this concept to take shape, we needed a way to see these ripples in action.

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I think one thing that is a really important thing to strive for is being internally driven, being driven to compete with yourself, not with other people. If you compete with other people, you end up in this mimetic trap, and you sort of play this tournament, and if you win, you lose. But if you’re competing with yourself, and all you’re trying to... See more

The internet, or “the information superhighway” as we Germans like to call it 🫠 is overwhelming people while making them addicted to it. In the piece below, Kyle Chayka frames curation as a way to slow down that information autobahn. By slowing down, curation offers people time to breathe and fully take in a piece of “content” instead of mindlessly... See more