Chris Betcher

I've had a Wordpress blog for well over 10 years, hosted by GoDaddy, and managed by me. It's been great, and I've enjoyed the opportunity to become familiar with Wordpress. It's a great platform. But it's also not cheap. Although Wordpress is open source software, you still need to host it somewhere, so that usually means taking up a hosting plan with a commercial hosting provider. I've paid GoDaddy to keep this blog up for well over a decade now, and have gladly just worn the cost. However, it's always been tempting to move everything across to Blogger, this free blogging platform from Google. I know that there's a degree of risk in doing that, given how many of Google's products end up in the Google Graveyard , but I feel that Blogger still has a lot of life in it, and don't really think it's going away anytime soon. Wordpress is definitely a more permanent and safer option, although the trade-off is that it's expensive.  However, I ha...

 A short while back I was asked to speak at an event about ways that we can prepare students for the future of work. I was still working at Google at the time, and I thought there was an angle to the question about preparing students for the future of work that is sometimes overlooked. Here was my response... I need to start by pointing out that there have been two systems that have influenced my own perspective on the future of work, and the education system is only one of them. The other one has been in “the workplace”, or the enterprise, or business, or whatever you want to call it, in the work I’ve done outside of schools for the last decade or so. I think it’s worth calling this out because as much as schools like to prepare students for “the future of work”, schools are also filled with people who often have only experienced what work looks like inside a school .  I think I can say that what work looks like inside a school and outside a school can look very differe...