kencarroll
Reset and reconnect
On my personal blog, I wrote recently about idea mills — blogs in which ideas are presented to readers with the goal of enticing the reader to mull over the idea, chew it up, spit it out, and help refine the raw idea into something more useful, both for the writer and for the reader. It’s an idea that I have spent a lot of time pondering.
My goal for Learning on Your Terms has always been to connect with and spread ideas through our user community. We are lucky enough to have thousands of really bright people visit our sites and learn from our products every day, and I think that it is from them — you! — that we can learn the most.
Ken Carroll, when he was writing heavily for the ChinesePod blog in 2006 and early 2007, often referred to the user community we had then as “the Big Brain” — a nod to the pure and simple truth that as a group you are far smarter than any one of us. I hope to over the next weeks and months plug back into that Big Brain, put out the ideas that are bouncing around our heads, throw them out for everyone to chew on and pick apart, and then learn.
I’m looking forward to it.