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Jul 15, 2025

“Three Forms of Feedback” and My Thoughts on Design Critique

This was originally written as an email to my then boss (ages ago!), but having shared essentially the same message now at several…

Photograph of a person giving a presentation, as evidenced by the large slidescreen to their right. This photo is of Adam Connor giving the closing keynote “Discuss Design Without Losing Your Mind” at EdUI in Richmond, VA (September 30, 2014).

Stephen P. Anderson

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May 29, 2025

Turning Ordinary Workshops into Extraordinary Learning Experiences

I just wrapped up a call with a new friend, who had questions about making a workshop more engaging. From our conversation, and some…

A group of people gathered around a table, interacting with tiles and printed pages.

Stephen P. Anderson

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May 10, 2025

Making Sense of Making Jjajangmyeon

An Illustrated Story of Culinary Visual Sensemaking

An illustration of how to make a recipe. Colored boxes and arrows, with sparse text and abstract representations of text. Presented here as a hero shot. described in more detail near the end of this post.

Stephen P. Anderson

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Apr 22, 2025

Making P.E.E.C.E. With AI

A framework I created to organize my understanding all things AI/LLM

Framework that is the focus on this post. There are 6 vertically stacked boxes, all shades of a light purple color save for the bottom box. Each box is labeled, with a single word from the acronym P E E C E. From top to bottom the labels are Practical, Economic, Ethical, Cognitive, Environmental, and Existential. There is a horizontal split in the Ethical box, separating out the upper half visible concerns from the bottom half less visible concerns.

Stephen P. Anderson

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Apr 1, 2025

WHAT Does A Product Manager Actually Do?

(My Attempt To Map All The Things!)

Framework to make sense of all the things a product manager does. Each area of this diagram will be explained in detail throughout this post.

Stephen P. Anderson

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Mar 26, 2025

A Brief Rant Against Using AI For Learning

Learning is work, and that work should be FUN!

A Brief Rant Against Using AI For Learning

Stephen P. Anderson

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Mar 20, 2025

Short Films as ‘Playful Things to Think With’

One of my joys at this time of year is watching the Oscar nominated short films. For the last two years, thanks to Shorts.TV, I’ve been…

Short Films as ‘Playful Things to Think With’

Stephen P. Anderson

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Mar 18, 2025

“Can you simplify this?”

Before You ✂️Cut✂️ Information, Try This Instead…

An abstract sketch of what looks like 9 bullet items; there is also a speech bubble that states: “Too much! Make it simpler!”

Stephen P. Anderson

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Feb 25, 2025

Deconstructing “What’s Worth Doing?”

Or, how a ‘simple’ card deck can improve our thinking.

Bird’s eye view of a person at a table, arranging colored hexagon cards.

Stephen P. Anderson

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Feb 11, 2025

The Cognitive Benefits of Actual Things to Think With

Suppose I asked you to play a game of chess with me.

Visual image summarizing everything written in this posts. We see the three versions of chess — using memory, texting, and with a board & pieces, arranged from left to right, with an arrow signifying the idea that using representations in the world “supports more complex thinking.”

Stephen P. Anderson

Stephen P. Anderson

Speaker, facilitator, and product leader. On a mission to make learning the hard stuff fun, by creating ‘things to think with’ and ‘spaces’ for generative play.

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