Elwin Loomis

Fish And Bird

Fish and bird consider each other. Though both swim. Fish fears air and will never understand bird. bird only understands fish as lunch. β€”- In your company, you may have been involved in a clash of cultures. Forward momentum slowed; the cul...

Make, Protect, Teach

Hearing these three words π™’π™–π™ π™š, π™₯π™§π™€π™©π™šπ™˜π™©, π™©π™šπ™–π™˜π™ I realized they were the basis I unconsciously framed my past β€˜work’ so that I could be motivated. Doing so, allowed me to enroll others it motivated me to care, feed, nurture and even protect. th...

Convergence

This weekend is special. It is a convergence Easter, Ramadan, and Passover occur on the same weekend. Normally this convergence happens three times a century, Once every 33 years. Easter the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. Passover, cele...

AI is not Cheating

My students are starting to use AI for their work. Dismayed, fearing that it was cheating and undermining learning. the teacher looked down at their coffee, Taking a sip of my coffee, I replied "I would not only let them, but also encourage it." AI ...

Waves

crashing on the beach the water is forever the waves live short lives It is said there are 5 stages of grief. some say there are 7 We assume that this Is a linear progression. But grief, Like all trauma Isn’t linear. It doesn’t go away. Over time t...

Would you be comfortable with these?

"Would you mind cutting this stuff up, while I attend to the stove?" I pointed to the cutting board, vegetables, and knife. My 13 year old who I have been cooking with since they were 3, Looked at the countertop, and then looked at me "You are left ...

Please and Thankyou

I say please and thank you to AI’s, LMM's etc. (Bing, ChatGPT and yes Alexa and Siri) not because I think of them as human, nor am I anthropomorphizing them. but because I want to maintain the habit of being polite… I don’t unintentionally ever want...

1+1>2

Co-creation is all about making 1+1 greater than 2. Working together and leveraging each other's strengths and skills, one can achieve much more than you would by working alone. If you have experienced this kind of group flow state, you understand it...

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You might be snickering I think many associate kindness with weakness Confusing kindness with being nice Kindness does not necessarily equal nice you can be nice and be passive you can be nice and just stand by.. but if you are kind This requir...

The In-Between

In our work lives, we talk a lot about the waves we are surfing while we are surfing. But I don’t hear a lot about those in-between periods, where we are sitting in the calm, looking for the next wave, watching the others surf. These ’in-betweens’, a...