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PANOPTIKA = See everything. Megann and Steve Willson. Consultants and coaches. When you see everything, you'll make better decisions.

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The conundrum, of late. Home - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne https://t.co/h83EPa7oi2 @dereklwalker @Phillip_Oakley

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@FinanceDirCFO We think you need to up your charge out rate, Alastair. These people need you!

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

Flying the F-18 in defence of Canada was a privilege.
It was also a deep responsibility, intercepting Soviet bombers off our east coast, holding alert for the continent, working cooperatively with @NORADCommand.
But the real joy was serving with so many good, motivated, selfless people in the @RCAF_ARC.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

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@bruceclarkprof It seems we are already there. It's the age of the entitled busybody.

[Alex Giedt (just trying) 🤷‍♂️ @Mechani_Kong]

Unbelievable. And they all just stand there

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@grightford @bruceclarkprof @dave_wakeman @ajwillshire @andrewceverett @SharonGChiara @FinanceDirCFO @alicesalisburyj @DougGarnett @MoveBravely @Mechani_Kong @liseymacd @ramirezreyes @Phillip_Oakley @guy_herbert @Runsforcoffee1 @content_grinder @KBallsays @atgarone @TomLewis_CPI @GrumpyAgencyGuy @seanmfdineen @mrdipeshashah @Simon83 @thatAlanCh @Giles_Edwards @LMPD @BinetLes That's exactly what we are doing!

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@FinanceDirCFO Oh, yeah. Fortunately we only work for good clients now.

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@dereklwalker We also wonder how much time that could have been spent creating and innovating, was instead spent on pleasing the dogs of command and control.

[Canadian Space Agency @csa_asc]

Today is the International Day of Human Spaceflight 🚀. An opportunity to highlight the humanity, collaboration, and boldness that shaped every moment of the Artemis II mission. Together, we push boundaries. 🌍✨

Photo : NASA

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

How it started - how it's going.
Yuri Gagarin was the first, 65 years ago today.
Artemis 2 crew, safely back from the Moon this week.
I salute the bravery, and marvel at what we can do.
We've only just begun.

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@dereklwalker Oh, Oh! But finance has an opinion!

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

We have just proven that we can deflect asteroids.
Ever since @NASA crashed the DART probe into this asteroid's little moon, we've been tracking the result. Now we know its 770-day orbit around the Sun changed by a fraction of a second.
That's enough to defend our Earth. The dinosaurs wish they'd had a space program!
details: https://t.co/vlZ4gQ8rTf

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

The President of the United States, everyone.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

I wonder what could possibly explain this decision, coming as it does immediately after Trump’s approval rating dropped to a record low of 36 per cent.

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https://t.co/UhccS7GADK
Why is it that artificial sweeteners always end up to be too good to be true?

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@EllisHockey2003 That's right. Not another state. Not ever. Elbows way up.

[derek walker @dereklwalker]

Funny how how quickly you can be labeled stubborn, instead of a person of convictions.

Choose to accept that having convictions means you are going to be hard to work with, and slow to compromise.

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Happy New Year to those with kindness and goodness inside.