In this blog I plan to keep track of my thoughts on how I learn and to record some of my key learning moments. I hope it will become a thread through these moments, one thread in the warp of a larger pattern of how people, especially my friends, children and colleagues learn.
By keeping this record, and offering it publicly, I am trying to better understand my own learning processes and how, if at all, they fit into the larger themes of our times. I take learning to be a basic source of diversity, for my own life, and for life itself. And I hope to inject some diversity into this blog, and through this, back into my own life and the lives I share.
This is my second attempt to use a blog to enhance my learning. My first try, several years ago, faltered as I got caught up in using other technologies (wikis and social bookmarking) for this purpose, and as I found the blogging process to be too serial to capture my own experience in any meaningful way. I still use wikis and social bookmarking extensively (the wikis, for now, are hosted by the company I work for - Monitor Group - and can not be made public, and you can find my social bookmarks at Crowdtrust). But I have been enjoying my other blog, Zawazawa Kitchen (where my wife Yoshie Hattori and I share recipes with our grown children) and perhaps now that I am a bit older I am actually enjoying the time-ordered nature of blogging, the laying out of small steps (thoughts) over time makes time itself seem more coherent, increasing the duration, or at least the present, of my life.
I have begun to write a book to gather my thoughts and experiences on learning. The first book will focus on the individual and the thought tools and environments that make individual learning successful. If this goes well, and my interest and readers interest is sustained, I hope to complement the first book with one on team learning and a third on organizational learning.
And I am hoping that I can share this blog with other people who are passionate about learning, their own and others, to build a bit of a community of people who are engaged in life learning and want to share their ideas and experiences.
