Intentional Engagement
I'm trying to change how I engage with technology – to move past ubiquity and towards intentionality.
Heart Soul Machine
Posts from the blog of Tim Klapdor.
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Simultaneous Monologues
Some thoughts on online dialogue and debate.
From Waterfall to Snowball
Or how I learnt to stop fighting complexity and learned to work with it.
The Network Should Be Ours
We're living in a world where the service and the product are two completely separate things. What we see are systems corrupted, eroded, and devalued to the extent that we can't trust them.
Tooting from the Blog
My approach to sharing via the fediverse has had to change with the closure of Echofeed. So here's my approach to replacing EchoFeed with a GitHub Action.
Blaugust - 10 days in
First time doing this whole 'blaugust' thing and it's coming along OK.
Some People Say
The implication of numerical weight implied by a phrase like 'some people say' is just shorthand for detecting bullshit.
The Answer Machine
There has always been a very human drive to find the Answer Machine – a device that reduces the effort required to arrive at solutions to our many problems.
Diversity is a Superpower
One of the things I want to do over the next little while is start sharing solutions – things I've done to solve problems, the approaches taken, and the lessons learned. Not theory. What actually worked. So here's some thoughts on building a team.
The Professional Toolkit
Can you just roll up your tools and leave any more? Some thoughts on the nature of labour and higher education.
The Politics of Care
More thoughts on contemporary politics and the growing sense that something is missing from what's currently on offer.
Culture is Complex
One of the things I keep coming back to is how poorly we understand culture as a system – and how that misunderstanding shapes the way we respond when something goes wrong.
Labor are the new conservatives
When the political party, with its roots in the labour movement, no longer represents workers' needs, what has it become? With a lack of ideas and an agenda devoid of progress and change, I'd suggest that it's now the conservative party.
Blaugust
Long time blogger, first time Blaugger
July 2026
A new job and another ride around the sun.
June 2026
The lows and highs of midwinter
May 2026
Plenty of signal and plenty of rain.
When the Noise is the Signal
The media has become a noise machine. The only way to find the signal is to connect with the people on the other end.
AI as UI
While the generative components of AI capture the headlines, perhaps the chat interface is the more interesting.
Why the Canvas hack was innevitable
While the news focuses on the hack, I wish we'd talk about the decision-making that made this thing an inevitability.
April 2026
April's been another great month. Everything just seems to feel stable at the moment.
All in the Verbs
Continuing on my work on a three-dimensional approach to Blooms – time to tackle the verbs.
To the Dark Side
Tweaking the website - adding a dark mode and moving CSS to more modern and vanilla.
March 2026
Mad March has been, genuinely, a good month.
Beyond the Cognitive: Rethinking Bloom’s Taxonomy
A case for expanding Bloom’s familiar triangle to include the Affective and Operative domains — and why it matters for modern education.
A little glitch
Adding a little visual flair to reflect the times we're in.
February 2026
OK - so now I'm ready for the new year!
January 2026
2026 kicks off with a sniffle.
2025 - A Wrap
Writing this through the haze of a cold, but we say goodbye to the year and marking another time around the sun – it's time to wrap up 2025.
2025 December
Rounding out the year.
2025 November
I am still catching up on the year that was!
October 2025
Catching up on the year that was... here's the October instalment!
Reclaim Open - This One Goes to 11(ty)
A blog of the presentation given at the #ReclaimOpen25 conference.
September 2025
The weather hasn't necessarily gotten warmer, but I'm noticing the distinct change in light.
Limits
Having some time to think in August, I spent some time thinking about my limits.
August 2025
A month of introspection and reflection. A bit of deep dive into my own psyche this month.
July 2025
The winter vibes have continued into July, which has not only been cold and dark, but wet too.
The Mirror and What's Not There
Every now and then, a series of articles, videos, and ideas emerges that helps form a connection and uncover a somewhat hidden aspect of a concept.
June 2025
Well, it's the end of the financial year...
The Economic Realities of Attention
What’s the value proposition of a bot filled timeline feeding you AI generated content?
May 2025
May and it's time to start thinking about my job as the Change Plan drops.
I Got Mine
The rise of the "I Got Mine" ideology
Why I Write
Thinking out loud about why I need to write and what I get out of it.
April 2025
April and it's time for a road trip and some driving time to clear my head.
A Value Proposition & Outcomes Focus
With an imminent restructure in mind, I thought I'd take a stab at starting to define what I bring to the table and what I've achieved beyond the tangible.
Easter Road Trip
A brief holiday on the road with Ms 13.
Leading through Change
Here's my somewhat anti-Change Management approach to leading through change.
High Agency
Some thoughts on an Agency Spectrum and reflecting on what agency means for me and my work.
March 2025
End of Q1 for 2025! I didn't blog much - but I was out in the world - reading, listening and watching too.
Being Broken
In the depths of COVID we turned to technology to connect us and express ourselves. Then to entertain us through the lockdowns. Then to distract us from our disrupted lives. Then we succumbed to the addiction. I think the addiction broke us and turned us into ... (looks around) ... this.