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  México Watch

When Andrés Manuel López Obrador ran for office, he promised to rid México of corruption, reduce the crazy murder rate, and replace technocratic, market-friendly policies with actions that put the “poor and forgotten” first. How’s that working out?

 The New York Times: “Who Was ‛El Padrino,’ Godfather to Drug Cartel? Mexico’s Defense Chief, U.S. Says”

 The New York Times: “In Mexico, a Truck Full of Corpses Takes a Mystery Road Trip”

 The New York Times: “Fearing Corruption Inquiry, Former Mexico Party Chief Moves to Block Arrest’”

 The New York Times: “Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away’”

 The New York Times: “In Mexico, ‛It’s Easy to Kill a Journalist’”  Leer en Español

 The New York Times: “Using Texts as Lures, Government Spyware Targets Mexican Activists and Their Families”

 The Guardian: “‛Adiós!’: Mexican Newspaper Norte Closes After Murder of Journalist”

 Mexico News Daily: “Mexico is Third Most Dangerous Country.”

 Mexico News Daily: Mexico Daily News

 The New York Times: Corruption at a Level of Audacity ‛Never Seen in Mexico’

  What I’m Up To...

Now that the pandemic is subsiding, I have decided to re-emerge from my hermitage.
I am re-imagining my Haïti project, which I hope to share soon.
If I seem not quite myself these days, it’s because I’m not quite all there — literally. I am paying for an accident I had as a farm boy, with dental implants, bone grafts, and assorted dental diablerie. The temporary front teeth look OK, but I have a little trouble speaking certain sounds. People don’t seem to notice — but I do!
The big news around Stately Wayne Manor is that I have completed two major writing projects: 53 Poems from Calibania and 20 Bedtime Stories & Forgotten Parables. They are now out of my hands. I hope they will be published by Christmas.

 

  MOOCs

Throughout the pandemic, I offered my MOOCs by invitation to former students.
After experimenting with larger class sizes during the pandemic, I decided to return to a smaller number to increase social presence and to allow more interaction. I intend to stick with these “Mini-MOOCs.”
As always, all materials are provided; there are no fees. Large-scale MOOCs, if you will excuse the redundancy, embody everything that is bad about Distance Learning, which is bad enough to begin with. I am rerunning some of my most popular MOOCs, all updated with new material:
  Agile: New Business Creation
  Speed: The Misplaced Virtue
  Blockchain, Bitcoin & the Future of Trust
  The No-Nonsense Job Hunt
  Cyber War
  Why Your On-Line Strategy Will Continue to Fail — And How You Can Prevent It

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Live an amazing life! Decide to learn, to create, and to do more — today. Use technology to do things that were unimaginable yesterday. Never settle on the things that matter. Lighten up on the things that don’t.

“It is not all right for Russia to decide Ukraine’s future.” - Antony Blinken
To my musical friend Serge Tiagnyriadno: Slava Ukraini!
Путин военный преступник!

 Cool Stuff in Wayne’s World...

Innovation Project

 Innovation Project

Mission: Integrate innovation into the curriculum. I have been teaching individual creativity and corporate innovation since 2005. Everyone wants it; no one wants to work for it. I can change that.

 Distance Learning Project

Mission: Make distance learning as good as — or better than — one-on-one tutoring, by any pedagogical standard. Am I there yet? No — but I can reliably beat every platform on the market. Want to see how?

 Emerging Business Paradigm

Mission: Re-think business and business education. All you know about business is wrong. All you know about business is right. This apparent paradox drives the Emerging Business Paradigm. Want to know more?

 The Music Project

Mission: Getting to the stage was going to be easy. Not so much. Whenever I think I’ve made progress, I hear the Precision Guided Thinkers jeering, and it’s da capo al fine.

 Change the World

Mission: Make a real difference. Change the world. A little ambitious? Yes. Impossible? Probably. Completely nuts? I won’t disagree. But if we don’t try, who will?

 The Writing Project

Mission: Thank-you, Donald Kaul, who taught me when to write; Professor Richard Freed, who taught me how to write; Anne Lamott, who taught me why to write, and my fellow Yalie, Tom Wolfe, who taught me not to write.
Two of my short stories, “Dreamweaver,” and “RAF,” were recently featured in the Mensa Bulletin. My first book of poetry, 53 Poems from Calibania, will be published just in time for Christmas.