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Welcome to my blog -- a living record of my field notes and evolving thinking at the intersection of learning design, human performance, and the technologies reshaping how we teach and connect.
If you're a fellow practitioner, educator, or curious thinker, pull up a chair. This is a thinking-out-loud space, not a finished product — and it's better with your voice in it. Drop a comment, push back on an idea, or share what you're seeing in your own practice.
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START WITH THE THING YOU'RE GOING TO BUILD
Week 9 · Blog Post 16 · Web 2.0-Based Learning and Performance · Summer 2026 AI-Generated Image | ChatGPT THE GROUP I KEEP NOT STARTING There's a conversation I've had maybe a dozen times this year, always with a slightly different person: An instructional designer. An L&D lead. Someone in HR who drew the wellbeing straw. The assignment is always the same: build something about mental health for our managers. And every one of them is building it alone, from scratch, o
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YOUR KNOWLEDGEBASE IS JUST A COMMUNITY WITH GOOD FILING
Week 9 · Blog Post 15 · Web 2.0-Based Learning and Performance · Summer 2026 AI-Generated Image | ChatGPT The archive builds itself. That's the problem. I have a folder. You have a folder. Every instructional designer I know has some version of it — a bookmarks bar, a Notion page, a Slack channel named #resources where fifteen people have posted and two hundred have scrolled past. We call these knowledgebases. Most of them are landfills with a search bar. What would i
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I PAID TO BE BENCHED
AI-Generated Image | ChatGPT I started a new contract by spending money. Hundreds of dollars out of my own pocket, on business insurance I was required to carry just to be allowed to begin. That was a month ago. I’ve earned none of it back — because I haven’t done a single hour of work. They “assigned” me to ten projects. Not one has started. A full month of silence while I sat available, turning down the chance to line up other work, waiting for a green light that never ca
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START WITH A TAG, NOT A TESTIMONY
Week 7 · Blog Post 14 · Web 2.0-Based Learning and Performance · Summer 2026 AI-Generated Image | ChatGPT After my last post — where I made the case that a social platform only becomes social learning when people actually make things in it, not just read — I got the obvious follow-up. Okay. But what would you actually do? Fair. Theory is comfortable. Designing the Tuesday-morning activity that a nervous stranger will actually click into is the hard part. So here's the
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THE COMMENTS WERE OFF THE WHOLE TIME
Week 7 · Blog Post 13 · Web 2.0-Based Learning and Performance · Summer 2026 AI-Generated Image | ChatGPT I read a study recently that has been rattling around in my head ever since. Researchers looked at how experienced faculty actually used social media in their courses — blogs, wikis, Twitter, the whole kit — and found something quietly devastating. The professors built the blogs. They set up the wikis. And then, in a lot of cases, they turned the comment features
Jun 244 min read
BUILD A DESK THEY CAN ACTUALLY WORK AT
AI-Generated Image | ChatGPT I spent six years in an office before I figured out that the thing making work so hard wasn't the work. I have depression and anxiety. On the page that sounds tidy. In an open-plan office it looked like a woman who wore headphones all day to drown out the chatter, who flinched every time her desk phone rang, who needed the meeting agenda in advance because surprises — a reorg, a "quick" pitch I had to react to live — could tip me into a panic at
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