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It was the first time a system was developed that took note of how the hand moved ergonomically in order to create a natural way of writing (drawing) unnatural letters, and linking them together.

This system allows you to write cursive with exceptional flow and - if you wish - flair, rather than simply copying complicated shapes and then having that body memory inevitably degrade over the years.

If your handwriting looks good and gives satisfaction you will do it more. It truly helps embodying thoughts and ideas, and provides another significant layer (like flavour in a recipe) of learning and understanding.

I was fortunate to be taught Marion Richardson [0] style handwriting aged 8 or so, and decades years later my handwriting is still universally complimented. I hand write letters for pleasure and take notes by hand for more profound impact.

If you look after a young person or are willing to go relearn it yourself I highly recommend the discipline and style that Marion Richardson demands. While learning it at first it looks childish, but it provides a foundation that you will immediately adapt with your own flavour. It got dropped in UK schools in the 1980s for being too old fashioned, for which I read 'difficult'.

Sadly I cannot recommend any modern books or worksheets (through my own contemporary ignorance) but her original books from 1935 still stand up [1]

[0] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo13...

[1] https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1326657/writing-and-writ...

Fair point, but I find the kind of advice given goes beyond being unhelpful into being actually damaging. It's exasperating at best and makes the 'patient' feel as if no one understands them, or worse that the world is against them.

On balance I weigh the damage of that as more negative than the absence of advice that might help.

I wish people would understand that "just get up early" simply does not and cannot work for a significant portion of the population (20-50% depending on which study you choose).

Therefore it is aggravating advice to constantly receive, from those for whom it worked, to those for whom it won't.

Around 2000 in Germany: https://www.bvnw.de/natur-und-waldkindergaerten/deutschland

450-500 in Denmark here's a good research study including impact on ongoing educational attainments: https://nexs.ku.dk/forskning/idraet-individ-samfund/krop-lae...

About 1000 in the US: https://naturallykatey.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/list-of-fore...

Plenty in the UK, Spain and France too.

There are more projects for early years education than later, and they very typically don't have websites or much digital presence.

Wonderful saying (a new one to me) and appreciate the explanatory article, thanks.

Thousands of Forest Schools in Europe now; a huge growth sector spreading globally.

[0] https://forestschoolassociation.org/ [1] https://www.thenativeschool.com/forest-school-101 [2] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220105-how-asia-fell-in...

Culture fit - while a prominent factor in job interview assessment - seems frequently relegated in acquisition processes.

You only need to look at the culture clash of Microsft and Rare to see what a bad idea this would be,

"Microsoft purchased the developer in 2002, and the Stampers departed in 2007. The family atmosphere of the 90s, when Chris and Tim sat in on interviews and left their talented developers to work unhindered, offering occasional golden nuggets of advice, was long gone. “Microsoft and Rare was a bad marriage from the beginning,” Rare’s Martin Hollis told Eurogamer in 2012. “The groom was rich. The bride was beautiful. But they wanted to make different games, and they wanted to make them in different ways.”[0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/aug/07/ultimate-rare-...

I remember reading the address on the back of the Ultimate boxes and seeing 'Ashby de la Zouch', thinking, these are such legends they've just made up a fictional town!

You generalized tarot and astrology based on the predictive elements often seen in the media.

You are completely ignoring the primary motivation of both practices which is very much in attempting to understand yourself.

It's a shame when those who decry alternative systems do so using flawed logic.

The tone of the article is wry, such things are worth tuning in to.

Rushkoff has been addressing difficult technology questions since at least the early 90s, so it's fascinating that the industry has not listened much before.

Incredible the negative impact of contemporary fears about journalistic integrity. Fact is they exposed corruption across the city using the only way possible.

Spain. Pretty sure it's very different

Yeah, it's an easy fix. Couriers routinely waste 20 minutes finding my place, scale that up and surely there's an incentive to resolve it.

Used it in every way I can think of. It doesn't work. Even when it works, it still requires each courier to interpret and follow instructions, when a simple map pin would get them there without delay...

Not sure why UK isn't mentioned, hitting 42% from wind and solar in Q1 2023 [0] [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65557469

After 23 years, a worthy conceptual sequel to Nosepilot [0] [0] https://alexsacui.com/launch/nosepilot.html

How about:

- help your family and friends out

- start businesses for fun or pure experimentation

- invest in your hometown (public services and local businesses)

- sponsor awards in your old school / college / university

- make art

etc

Lovely tool! Suggestion: colorized keys should be off by default as some colours are difficult to distinguish if active or not eg those against yellow keys.

Wandel is doing something right, that's for sure. But for me he goes a little too far in ignoring established wisdom in his attempts to reinvent the wheel. While I admire the idea of going back to first principles, debunking myths and applying new perspectives, sometimes you need to acknowledge that things are done this way for a very good reason so let's use that as a foundation, instead of going further back and eventually, painfully concluding that you have not been able to reinvent the wheel.

Here is a particularly egregious example that simply causes harm to those trying to refinish wooden floors: https://youtu.be/mHiF8xwjRGI?t=357

There are a group of skateboarders dedicated to only (mostly) riding Jersey barriers: https://www.instagram.com/barrierkult/?hl=en

Ha, thanks, but you did a great job so I sent it to many folk who have been sceptical or nonplussed on the topic.

I don't know. I have listened to a lot of unholy radio, watched a lot of trash TV, played enormous amounts of the devil's rock and roll music and consume unfathomable hours of social media and in summary I feel I'm a better, more educated person as a result.

There's little difference between this comment and what people said about every single media advance of the 20th century.

Nah. TikTok embraces flaws, problems, doubts, concerns and failures in a way that other social platforms traditonally have not.

This is a fantastic article that makes a sterling attempt to get to the bottom of why TikTok feels different to other platforms.

If you're someone who doesn't get it yet, consider it a sign that it's worth your investment in time and energy to really try and get it, if you want to stay on top of how younger people think, work, act and play.

From the article and some comments here a few suggestions:

- TikTok is 'showing' while other platforms are 'telling'. - You don't 'hunt' videos you 'gather' them. - Flaws are truth, so they are typically welcomed rather than scrubbed.

For me the biggest breakthrough was understanding that this is not primarily a visual or audio medium, but an idea medium. This is why objectively poor video or scrappy / copied audio makes no difference to success, instead something deeper is being created and propagated.

Great metaphor