I spend a good deal of time skim reading the too many sources that make up my information diet. Good thing 1’s and 0’s don’t put on body mass. When I come across something that I think might be of interest to folk I know I usually share it via twitter or on one of a too many platforms that are used by academics and would-be academics who are working in a common idea space or who are institutionally trapped by an imposed social media platform. 

At the suggestion of my much better half, I have opted to collect and where I can curate stuff on this site and not play the individual “you might find this useful/interesting” game.

cj has moved back

 It's 2022, omg and it's time for a change and reassess of my online stuff. So it's all back to where it all kicked off. The other site has gone to a digital third space. 

cj has moved

I've begun to colonise a small piece of digital bit space. All of my scribbling, notes and crazy stuff will appear there from now on. And, I have gently eased myself into another blog.

Taleb the scribbler

With a wee bit more time on my hands now, or that is what I keep telling myself, I have been chewing on the fun scribbles of one Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I think that iconoclasts who write in an entertaining manner are folk who tickle my intellectual fancies more often than not. A good book to me is one that provokes new ideas, disturbs what I thought were settled ideas (yes, I do have a few) and also is a tad playful. Taleb's two books Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan both qualify on these grounds. Taleb is wonderfully skeptical and delightfully curious in his exploration of ideas which touch on much of what count as important in education, the academy and other interesting and important bits of social space.

I came across an excellent review of The Black Swan. Well worth a read.