Forget Personality Types: Think in Terms of Personality Thresholds

Introverted. Extroverted. Detail-oriented. Assertive. Expressive.  We use these words to define this thing that we call a person’s “personality.”  Psychologists (and their ancestors, going back all the way to pre-history) have developed certain standard measures of personality, and these measures can be, well, measured.  Yet, how useful are these personality measures (or “traits”) really?   I’m wondering if the question isn’t whether [...]

Time Crunch

From the Twitterstream, because there ain’t no time for long-verse blogging: The time crunch prevents me from doing the quality of work I’d like to do, but it’s also the reason I got hired to do the work at all.

Effective Instruction Through Reverse Engineering: 2 Kinds of NLP and the 49 Teaching Techniques of Lemov’s Taxonomy

Lemov’s Taxonomy is sort of like NLP for schoolteachers. Here’s why.

Thought du Mois

If nothing else, we are the masters of our own discretionary effort.

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