I’m combining two episodes into one for this week’s update, since I didn’t send one last week. On the most recent episode of Teaching in Higher Ed (Episode 615), I was joined by Matt Mahavongtrakul for an exploration of how to be kind to our future selves. He’s a Program Director of Faculty Educational Development at the University of California, Irvine, and gives a bunch of concrete examples of how he sets up systems, structures, and approaches with the mindset that our plans can, and will be disrupted by the unexpected in life. The week prior, I shared how I use RSS to bring some ease into my personal knowledge mastery (PKM) for Episode 614.

Resources from the two episodes:

• Karen Costa’s LinkedIn Post About the Ink & Volt Planning Dashboard
• Notsu
• Eisenhower Matrix
• Episode 407: Unpacking Resilience and Grief with Chinasa Elue, Laura Howard, and Este Jordan (they share about each of their “pandemic dirty words” on this episode)
• Goblin Tools - Magic ToDo
• Ink and Volt Dashboard Deskpad
• Gettin’ Air: The Open Education Network with Robin DeRosa and David Ernst, by Terry Greene
• Asana
• Why Isn’t RSS More Popular By Now, by Bonni Stachowiak
• Real Simple Syndication, by Harold Jarche
• Inoreader
• Unread App
• The Indispensable Digital Research Tool I can Say, Without Lying, Saves Time, by Alan Levine (aka CogDog)
• RSS in Plain English, by Common Craft
• MiniRoll
• This Cozy Reading Life with Katie Linder
• The Transformers: Imagining the Future of the Teaching of Writing
• Poll Everywhere

RSS Feeds Inspiration

• NASA Image of the Day
• McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Recommended

I started a series of posts as I convey the ways in which I’m experimenting with AI agents, in general, and Claude Cowork, specifically. Before I get too deep into it, though, I begin with Permission to Go Slow.

Quotable Words

I know I already shared this quote from Harold Jarche in a recent update, but it fits too perfectly in this week’s focus, so I had to bring it back around, again.

In a crisis it is important to act but even more important to learn as we take action.

Next Week’s Episode

On the upcoming episode of Teaching in Higher Ed, Nancy Chick, Peter Felten, and Katarina Mårtensson share about The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

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