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Choose a starting point for planning research and checking sources and citations.
Choose a reflective learning companion for technology, philosophy or ethical questions.
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The browser-only Vital Few exercise can help you reflect on up to five broad recurring tasks before choosing a Duck or conversation.
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The browser-only Five-Minute Admin Drain Audit looks at one administrative task and gives you a copyable next-step summary. Nothing is submitted, saved or sent.
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For: Decision-makers, analysts and people improving their work.
Task: Identify the vital few priorities in a decision, plan or workload.
Use Pareto’s 80/20 principle to identify the vital few priorities, improve delegation and focus effort where it matters most.
Use it for planning and reflection. Check important decisions with appropriate evidence and professional judgement.
Open in ChatGPTFor: Students, educators and researchers.
Task: Plan research and practise finding and checking credible sources.
Support for planning research, finding credible sources and working through Harvard-style citation practice.
Always check sources, citations and your institution’s academic-integrity rules.
Open in ChatGPTFor: Technology-minded learners and academics.
Task: Explore technology ideas and questions for learning and discussion.
Explore ideas, predictions and practical realities around the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
For learning and discussion, not a forecast or professional advice.
Open in ChatGPTFor: Learners, thinkers and students.
Task: Use a reflective prompt when thinking through an idea or question.
A daily philosophical quotation generator and conversational companion for reflection.
Use it as a prompt for thought, not as an authority on personal decisions.
Open in ChatGPTFor: Students, learners and people exploring ethical questions.
Task: Explore an ethical question through Aristotle’s virtue theory.
Explore decisions through Aristotle’s virtue ethics and the idea of the Golden Mean.
Reflective educational guidance only. It is not legal, medical, financial or professional advice.
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