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Recent Blook Posts
The last twenty posts that have been published are listed below:
- The Care in Curiosity ** Seeing it not as a tool, but a way of being with the world
- The Etymology of Curiosity A history rooted in care
- What Is Vibe Coding? Programming in the Age of AI
- What Is Vibe Writing? Two meanings, one instinct
- Peter Block, the Grand Inquisitor, and Leadership Leadership, freedom, and the burden of responsibility
- Peer Instruction Vs. Peer Learning Rethinking how we learn and lead
- Conversations That Drive Change Using Knowledge Cafés for transformation and change
- Mandela Chose to Talk How conversation, not force, helped unite a divided South Africa
- The Fable of the Bees Or, Private Vices, Public Benefits
- Rules of the Garage: Reigniting Innovation at HP Innovation Story: How Carly Fiorina’s Manifesto Modernized the HP Way
- Introduction: Conversation in the Age of AI Artificial intelligence
- Critical Thinking How to challenge your own assumptions
- Writing with AI Isn’t Necessarily Cheating Why it’s a legitimate tool for professionals and creators
- Retrospective Coherence in a Complex World How oversimplified narratives distort the past and hinder decision-making
- Congruence, Coherence, and Contingent Truth Building a framework for understanding
- The House of Wisdom Innovation Story: An Islamic beacon of innovation and collaboration
- Three Questions for Meaningful Conversations Clarify focus, approach, and community-building in discussions
- Constraints in Complex Systems Complexity
- Nurturing an Innovation Culture Allowing emergence, not imposing change
- Adaptive Funding for Innovation Diversifying investments to drive innovation
Recent Pages
The last five pages that have been published are listed below:
- Pay by Paypal Make a payment to Gurteen Associates Ltd
- In the Age of AI Podcast Exploring how artificial intelligence shapes our thoughts, work, and society
- Chatgpt Online ChatGPT
- Notebooklm Audio Podcast Transforming text into engaging, interactive conversations
- Gurteen Knowledge Café Registration Form Gurteen Knowledge
Recent Updates
The last ten posts/pages that have been updated are listed below:
- Make Big Talk Make big talk not small talk
- Introduction: Conversational Leadership Conversational Leadership
- Our Old Ways of Thinking and Working Are Failing The outcome
- What Is the Metacrisis The interconnected crises shaping our world
- Conversational Leadership Events Future Talks, Knowledge Cafés and Workshops
- Conversational Leadership Future Events Future Talks, Knowledge Cafés and Workshops
- Rediscovering Rhetoric Rethinking how we influence and communicate every day
- Knowledge Is Communal Most of our knowledge resides in other people
- Socrates on Democracy Socrates had a nuanced view of democracy
- Interbrain Synchrony When neural activities align between people during social interactions
Recent People
The last five people that have been added are listed below:
- Carl Sagan American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator.
- Simon Sinek Author and inspirational speaker
- Arthur C. Brooks American social scientist
- Yuval Noah Harari Historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Peter Boghossian American philosopher
Recent Books
The last five books that have been added are listed below:
- The Fable of the Bees: or Private Vices, Publick Benefits Bernard Mandeville (1714)
- The Coming Wave Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar (2024)
- The Four Horsemen: the Discussion That Sparked an Atheist Revolution Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris , Daniel C. Dennett, Christopher Hitchens (2019)
- God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Christopher Hitchens (2007)
- Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI Yuval Noah Harari (2024)
Recent Papers
The last five papers that have been added are listed below:
- Ten Years in Knowledge Management David Gurteen
- Teaching Innovation, Conversations, Community of Practice: Using Knowledge Cafe’s to Share Teaching Best Practice … D.J. Cranfield, D. Gurteen (2020)
- Knowledge Café’s, Informal Conversations, Sharing Teaching Best Practice Desireé Cranfield, David Gurteen (2020)
- Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Cafés – a Case Study in Higher Education Desireé J Cranfield, Isabella M Venter, Sue Evans, Ellen Spender
- Knowledge Café: New Approach in Teaching and Learning at Higher Learning Institutions Noryana Ahmad Khusaini, Mohd Shamsul Daud, Seri Intan Idayu Shahrul Asari, Nordibradini Selamat
Recent Videos
The last five videos that have been added are listed below:
- The Great Problem of Our Time Sam Harris (2025)
- Singapore Knowledge Café David Gurteen, 2012
- In the Age of AI #3: What Is Reason? Thursday 13th March 2025
- Gurteen Knowledge Cafe in Sydney David Gurteen (2007)
- In the Age of AI #2: What Is Conversation? Thursday 20th February 2025
Recent Quotations
The last five quotations that have been added are listed below:
- The Challenge of Open Dialogue in an Age of Technological Division Sam Harris (2025)
- Understanding Ourselves Bernard Mandeville (1714)
- Complex Humans Are Mind-body-world Beings Dave Snowden
- Democracy: Flawed Yet Indispensable David Gurteen (2024)
- Nothing Betrays Character Like Laughter Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Recent Blog Posts
The last five blog posts that have been added are listed below:
- What’s the Vibe? Merging vibe writing with vibe coding
- How We Learn Together Peer Instruction vs. Peer Learning
- Rethinking Intelligence A broader view that includes plants, bacteria, ecosystems, and machines
- Beyond Words How Mandela's conversations changed a nation
- Lessons From the Hive Do flaws in human nature help societies thrive?
Recent Comments
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