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Inoculating Organizations Against Misalignment
I find that organizational misalignment is a diagnostic mystery I cannot resist. Fortunately, I also have a hard time walking away from problems I know I could solve through learner experience design. I want to hear why people are frustrated, what operations are working against their own intent, and most importantly, what assumptions led to…
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Sure I can be awkward—but have you seen my pattern recognition?
I was just a stereotypical college kid with a part-time job — and no idea that the pattern my brain was about to inaugurate would go on to reappear like cross-sector whack-a-mole across a span of diverse experiences. In truth, before I was designing multi-year change management systems, innovating workflows that cut operational steps in…
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If the Target were Equity
What if, in some post-apocalyptic society, the remaining clans of humanity had an annual coming-of-age archery tournament and it is your year to participate? What if afterwards, no one rejoins their childhood clan and the results of the tournament determine how welcome you will be in any of the others because only those who can…
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Wait, I Know This One
My central takeaway from the MSU MALXD program is not what I expected it to be. I came in believing I was going to learn how to become a leader in instructional design. I am leaving with the understanding that I have been actively inhabiting this work for a long, long time — and inhibiting…
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Create a To-Do List for Kids with Google Sheets
Turn a Google Sheet into an interactive tracker to help kids accomplish everything from daily chores to long-term school projects independently.