The Demountable

Jackson Bates — Engineering Manager, Melbourne. Empathetic leadership, product thinking, pragmatic delivery.

Jackson Bates is an Engineering Manager in Melbourne, at Atomi, an Australian EdTech platform for high school students and teachers. He came to software through teaching, and this site is a portable classroom you can look around: the chalkboard, projector, pinboard, bin and other objects hold his lessons, projects and the things that went wrong. Every object is also available as a plain page, from the simple version.

Exercise book: Decorate your own exercise book cover.
Team report card: Twelve questions about your team, then a school report.
ID card: The staff ID card: who Jackson is, front and back, as plain text.
Chalkboard lesson: Who owns when? A three-circle chalk drawing, in four steps.
Projector case studies: The sheets from the overhead projector, as plain text.
Pinboard: The notes on the pinboard, each a way into a post on the blog.
Bin: Lessons from things that went wrong, each a way into a post on the blog.
Tape recorder: The podcast episodes on the desk's tape recorder, with players and links.

The simple version

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