Jay Cross

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What it’s like to endure 7 weeks of amnesia

Jay Cross

For the last year, I’d gotten into pouring stream-of-consciousness words into the 2012 Pages file. Feeling hip, I put the file in Apple’s cloud. Apple tells me if I don’t save a iCloud resident file on my iPad, when I try to open it on my Mac, it may give this error. I weed them out every five years.

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It’s time

Jay Cross

Then the apple began to cave in. Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. In 2002, I saw a large photograph by Sam Taylor-Woods of fruit on a woven plate at the Tate Modern in London. Still life , ha, ha, an oxymoron. We all know life is anything but still. I was looking at a time-lapse video, not a still picture. The end of life.

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Six topics for the price of one

Jay Cross

I’m returning to the impromptu, stream-of-consciousness style I used when I began blogging a dozen years ago. I store a file named 2013 Jay’s Stories in Apple’s iCloud so I can easily access it from any of my computers. (I I’ll talk with Apple about this but I am going back to Dropbox. I am hosed.

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How to Replace Top-Down Training with Collaborative Learning (3)

Jay Cross

Activity streams, like Twitter, so I know what’s going on and what people are talking about. Choosing and subscribing to streams of information I’m interested in. Activity streams should be available for the company at large and for workspaces. Minimum feature set: shared screen, text chat, video conferencing streams.

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What’s on the bookshelf at Internet Time Lab

Jay Cross

Throw an apple high in the air. By the time the apple falls back to earth, it can tell you precisely what made it come back. Multi-tasking doesn’t work — if you are foolish enough to try to merge two complicated streams. Consciousness. At the top of its flight, endow it with human consciousness and reasoning.

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50 best articles on Working Smarter for the first half of 2012

Jay Cross

How Apple will turn the Net’s top into TV’s bottom DOC SEARLS | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012. Yammer and why activity streams are a key foundation for integrated applications and organizations ROSS DAWSON | MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012. Kapp’s Gamification for Learning and Instruction CLARK QUINN | MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012.

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Ted Nelson’s Unbook

Jay Cross

This session is the first of what Brewster envisions as a stream of continuing events. Ted takes pride in never having joined Adobe, Apple, or Cisco. It took PARC and Apple to convert some of Doug’s concepts into practice. And that will surely help us navigate the fast-moving stream of modern life.