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Yes, when you own your choices—and use that power to look out for others, not just yourself.

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Top 20+ Tools to Curate Amazing Content for Education Explore 20+ top content curation tools for educators and creators. Simplify teaching and boost engagement with the best digital resources!

Top 20+ Tools to Curate Amazing Content for Learning & Education

Blood in the Instructional Design Machine? The reality of AI, job degradation & the likely future of Instructional Design

Dr. Philippa Hardman warns that AI isn’t here to eradicate IDs—it’s here to shift what ‘craftsmanship’ in our roles looks like. The real risk? Ceding control, not losing jobs. As AI handles routine tasks, instructional designers must resist becoming mere operators.

Steve Jobs’ greatest UX rule (that most Designers ignore) Let’s kick this off with a wild stat: According to a Nielsen Norman Group study, users decide whether to stay or leave a webpage in less…

“Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” - Steve Jobs

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The Ultimate List of Books for Behavior Change and Design Get inspiration from over 150 of my books this summer

The Ultimate List of Books for Behavior Change and Design

Behavior change thrives when combined with science, innovation, design, & other disciplines. These books go beyond the core field of behavioral science, featuring service design, organizational design, storytelling, & more

Raindrop.io — All in One Bookmark Manager For your inspiration, read later, media and stuff

🌧️ Raindrop.io: Your Brain’s External Hard Drive for Learning Resources?

Christy Tucker shared a smart, no-nonsense guide to using Raindrop.io to save and organize resources.

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Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now make and edit your Canva designs Provided you have a premium account for both platforms.

Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now make and edit your Canva designs

Claude just plugged into Canva. That means you can now create, edit, and resize your designs by simply chatting with Claude.

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Try featured notebooks on selected topics in NotebookLM NotebookLM is adding featured notebooks, with works selected by partners like The Atlantic and The Economist.

Try featured notebooks on selected topics in NotebookLM

From science to Shakespeare, get advice from experts and call upon curated collections of information with featured notebooks in NotebookLM, available today.

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In the AI Age, Making Things Difficult Is Deliberate There's a difference between obstacles and the struggle that makes you better. Here's how to tell.

Willem Van Lancker argues that “productive friction”—the struggle of learning through trial, error & critique—is essential for developing true expertise.

Read this to understand how to balance AI's efficiency with the intentional friction necessary for mastery in your field.

AI Model Selection for Instructional Design A data-informed field guide to select the right LLM for the right task

AI Model Selection for Instructional Design

A data-informed field guide to select the right LLM for the right task

How to Make AI More Creative: 4 Keys to Better Prompting When I talk about AI creativity, it's important to start with how most people use Google. When people first start prompting AI tools, they treat them like

How to Make AI More Creative: 4 Keys to Better Prompting

30 Seconds to Impress: 8 Expert Tips to Ensure Your Portfolio Gets Noticed In today's fast-paced world, your portfolio has only 30 seconds to make an impact. These 8 essential tips will help you grab attention, showcase your skills, and ensure you stand out to recruiters,…

30 Seconds to Impress: 8 Expert Tips to Ensure Your Portfolio Gets Noticed

My all-in-one productivity tool 🚀 How Craft works for almost everything

Craft is a multipurpose document + notes tool everyone should know. It looks & feels nicer than Google Docs or Apple Notes. It’s easier to use than Obsidian, Coda or Notion

And it’s flexible enough for everything from shopping lists to client proposals. Learn more from Jeremy Caplan

Content Marketing Plan: What It Is and How to Create One New to content marketing? Read this guide to learn what a content marketing plan includes and how to build one that actually works.

“Content without a strategy is just stuff. And the world has enough stuff.”

Arjun Basu

10 Things I Learned From a Decade of Doing 1 Thing - Darius Foroux On July 7, 2015, I hit “publish” on a simple and short post about the power of saying no.  I had just quit my corporate job, owned nothing but a laptop, and figured I had exactly zero reputation to…

Laugh at your mistakes. Shake off criticism. It’s fine if people don’t get you or mock you. They’re not thinking about you nearly as much as you think.

Be serious about your work, but never about yourself. Life’s short. Lighten up.

ATD Accidental Trainer: The Problem with Bloom’s Taxonomy, and What To Use Instead with Jonathan Halls Jonathan Halls is an author and consultant who uses learning science to streamline talent development to be digital and focused on business results. In today’s episode, Jonathan takes on L&D’s…

ATD Accidental Trainer: The Problem with Bloom’s Taxonomy, and What To Use Instead

Jonathan Halls guides us through a thoughtful critique of Bloom’s and offers an alternative framework for writing learning objectives that actually achieve the desired results.

How to Bullet Better | CreativePro Network A guide to writing impeccable and effective lists

How to Bullet Better | CreativePro Network

A vertical list is a dandy way to help your reader scan and absorb information. But many lists suffer from problems that compromise their clarity. To ensure that all your lists are impeccable and effective, keep reading.

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I'm curious about this wearable that "A/B tests" your health

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🌟 Tally: Superb Free Surveys Design flexible forms in 60 seconds

🌟 Superb Free Surveys

Tally.so is such a superior option for web forms and survey. Way more powerful and flexible than Google Forms but you can save your responses to Google if you want with their integrations. Lots to like and if you ever need forms you should check it out

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Yes, please! 8-)

The most human thing you can do is use tools that free you up to be more human where it matters most. Nobody ever said, "That automated reminder email changed my life." But they might say that about the conversation you had time for because you weren't drowning in spreadsheets.

"The value of knowledge no longer hinges on exclusivity but on execution. In this new era, it’s not who owns the idea but who can wield easy instant access to infinite knowledge to create something extraordinary."

- Reuven Cohen

Enhancing Your PowerPoint Experience: Customizing Out of the Box PowerPoint The Presentation Podcast · Episode

Enhancing Your PowerPoint Experience: Customizing Out of the Box @PowerPoint

This deep dive into customizing PowerPoint is a goldmine for anyone looking to streamline their #PowerPoint workflow, leverage hidden settings and features, and create more in less time.

“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.”

- Dan Gilbert

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"Ignore topics that drain. The most fundamental skill: Intentional learning and the career advantage. Unfollow people that drain your energy...Do not keep up with it all. The more selectively ignorant you become, the more broadly knowledgeable you can be."

– James Clear

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. Clarity doesn't come before action. It comes from action.”

― Rumi