Thought for the day: Socrates on Writing

Socrates. He would be a very simple person… who should leave in writing or receive in writing any art under the idea that the written word would be intelligible or certain; or who deemed that writing was at all better than knowledge and recollection of the same matters?
Phaedrus. That is most true.
Socrates. I cannot help […]

Creating Passionate Users: A Crash Course in Learning Theory

If you ever have to teach anyone anything–as part of your job, on a volunteer basis, for any reason at all–or if you ever give presentations, or write user documentation, you could do worse than spend fifteen minutes with this blog post:
…[H]ere’s a crash course on some of our favorite learning techniques gleaned from cognitive […]