The Talent Code brings us on a tour of the brain to explain how talent is acquired, weaving the science (and sometimes bold assumptions about the reptilian brain) with plenty of illustrative stories and anecdotes reminiscent of Gladwell's Outliers. Basically there's no such thing as "innate talent", only hard work …

I was recommended and lent "The Sin of Wages" a few weeks ago. That was an interesting read ;-) The book, particularly the beginning, contains a lot of interesting ideas that challenge the way we currently look at wages and the negative effects of the traditional pay system -- "if you pay …

The origami workshop in Tog on Friday night was a success \o/

Turn-out was great despite a couple of late cancellations, another Tog member with strong origami powers stopped by to help out if needed, and everybody seemed to be having fun, and I think everybody learnt something new -- I …

Interested in learning origami? I'm organising a free 2-hour origami workshop in Tog, on July 8th (a Friday) from 7pm to 9pm, kindly taught by Jamie O'Leary. Complete beginners and intermediate levels are very welcome, though if more advanced students would like to drop by and give a hand, they're …

Last week-end I attended the Re-imagining Learning conference in Limerick, a conference by the Educate Together folks aiming to rethink early secondary school.

As expected the majority of the talks were very interesting and/or inspiring. The way the schedule seemed to work, keynotes were meant to be higher level …