"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
After the pandemic, the recurrent slogan was either "back to normal" or advocating for a "new normal" that really meant "I've seen how much I can push people to make more money, and I plan on doing just that". Two things piss me off when...
After War and Peace, every character ranks a score between 1 and Pierre. On a scale from 1 to Pierre, The Cossacks' main character ranks a solid 9, with his strife for happiness and his zero idea of how to achieve it. Leo Tolstoy’s The Cossacks...
This particular collection, in the charming Penguin's clothbound classics, contains three sets of stories: The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin, a collection of short stories; the fairly lengthy novella Dubrovsky; and the titular Queen of Spades. Though I would have appreciated the title to better reflect the...
A few weeks ago, I gave you my two cents (well, they're more than two cents, by now) on the future of adult learning, and the first pillar of my theory was the necessity to involve game design. This week, back from Denmark and while...
Two very different people attempt to conquer a mountain peak. Are they friends or guide and customer? Who had the idea for the expedition? And, most importantly, what’s the purpose of climbing a mountain? My family and I always had an uncomplicated relationship with mountaineering, a...
Azaro is an abiku, a spirit child that sneaks his way into his mother's womb only to enjoy a brief stay into our world and then die. They're considered malign spirits and the grief they cause is immense, hence the tradition of scarring the faces...
On April 30th, the new UNI 11621-8: 2026 was presented, a norm carrying an ambitious title somewhere along the lines of Professional role profiles relating to Artificial Intelligence. The norm is part 8 of a series on role profiles for ICT in the context of...
Sometimes you read a book with beautiful prose and well-constructed characters but, when you put it down, you couldn't tell the plot if your life depended upon it. Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country is one of these books. Born in 1899, the author won the Nobel Prize...
I'm satisfied.Satisfied and surprised.Satisfied because this book, since reading the Peanuts as a child, is the Ultimate Achievement. Once you've read it, you feel you can achieve everything. You could even be the first beagle to land on the moon.And satisfied because… by God, this...
The end of 2024 brought us no grand educational reckoning, no moment of consensus that we need to reimagine how adults learn. Instead, through 2025, we've settled into a peculiarly quiet collective exhaustion with the pandemic's educational experiments, paired with a creeping anxiety that something...
