Perhaps one of the most ambitious learning experiences a teacher can deliver is to make learning memorable for their students. It’s an experience that brings people, place, and program together in a special combination that is often hard to replicate. But it leaves many learners with lasting insights, feelings, relationships, Read more
In 2014, one of the most powerful films of the decade was released: Interstellar. An original film by Christopher Nolan that utterly blew me away with its timeless messages of despair, hope, family, love, space, and time. I will write about this film separately one day, but equally matching the Read more
[The following is a slightly edited version of a piece I wrote for Learning Creates Australia in September 2024.] In 2011, American sociologist Sherry Turkle published a book titled ‘Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other’. Her accompanying TED Talk ‘Connected, but alone?’ is Read more
The advantage of having so many drafted posts is that the history adds even more context. The title and notes around this post have been sitting in my drafts since October 2022. That’s nearly 4 years ago. The core provocation that I needed to get off my chest at the Read more
This CD is a great one from British duo HONNE, which I shared on Instagram back in February 2022. This album is titled with a great provocation, ‘Let’s just say the world ended a week from now, what would do?’. Released in 2021, amidst the tail-end of the pandemic, it’s Read more
This post is largely combined from a comparison I shared on StereoNet back in June 2024. It was at the juncture of revamping my hifi system, where I’d recently switched to new speakers (the Sonus Faber Sonetto) and had decided to switch one of my sources as well: the CD Read more
Potentially controversial point to start, but CDs still beat other formats in my humble opinion. They capture details and depth that other formats sometimes don’t quite communicate. This is beautifully demonstrated in this rare recording of a concert with Oscar Peterson in Helsinki, November 1987. This double-CD is titled ‘A Read more