Surfing the Frequencies

Charbel Haddad

Learning Guide · Technologist


Twenty-five years across enterprise technology, international education, and community life, always building towards my (yes, utopian, but measurable and therefore achievable) vision of an intuitive — and forever free — human learning platform that can help us reshape and promulgate a new gold standard for global quality of life.

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“Curiosity may have killed a few cats, but lacking it painfully gnaws away at the ~9 billion living.”

Humancurriculum.org/.info sparked out of a few neurons firing a few decades ago, then drowned in the backburner while I climbed the corporate ladder. I burned my ladder. I highly recommend it. This (lexical) home is now a haven for those who tread (often alone) against the trending and the fashionable. A place where words can do the warring — until we evolve into dancing.

Origin Story (feels so cliche)

My parents migrated from Lebanon to Canada in 1987, where I experienced most of my schooling years. I climbed through Canada's technology sector from datacentre helpdesk to national manager, then led national border IT security infrastructures across West Africa. I made a deliberate turn toward education in 2016, teaching and building curricula across China, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Earned a Master of Education and lectured at Vietnam's highly regarded Foreign Trade University, while advising organizations on information strategy in the NGO and climate consulting sectors.

I'm fluent in English and French, proficient in Arabic, and keep building working knowledge of whatever languages I encounter — Mandarin, Spanish, Vietnamese, and counting. Learning is fun when intentional. Exploring permaculture across South America and East Asia these past years, learning to design climate-friendly systems with concepts like regenerative agriculture, bioconstruction, and water management. This knowledge domain along with knowledge of the self are what I consider human kindergarten.

So then, what is driving all this meandering? "A rolling stone gathers no moss."

Guiding question: How do we make a quality life accessible to everyone, free of misery, aggression, manipulation, envy and greed?

Root cause analyses keep landing me on the need for genuine learning experiences, freely accessible to everyone, everywhere, and they must:
  1. Nurture intrinsic motivation through agency, self-reliance (to meet basic needs), self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-efficacy.
  2. Sculpt autonomous, free-thinking, transparent, assertive, and courageously engaged members of society who can actively listen, understand and verbally resolve their own conflicts, with pacifist empathy, not violence.
  3. Mold authentic, self-actualized, unique, ever-growing and ever-changing identities, as opposed to fixed followers and conformist bricks.
  4. Shape personal satisfaction and pride around one's own achievements and competence, self-defined life meaning(s), and self-attributed moral values.
  5. Forge individuals who collaborate with unconditional curiosity, a love for exploration and discovery, and an incessant itch for creation

Solving this problem is my life goal and personal mission. My learning and my work choices must always bring me closer to achieving this vision. Winning alone makes everyone else a loser; growing together makes everyone else a winner. No matter how challenging this may be, we must resiliently persist until everyone is given access to equal opportunity. No matter what we choose to do, we simply cannot allow the nonsense we have now to continue.

What I'm building

Two projects — One 'Ouse.

Collective & civic

One 'Ouse (The Blueprint)

OneHouse — a crowdsourced, MediaWiki-built blueprint for how humanity could live together, where your voice replaces a vote cast by proxy. Open to anyone who wants to help write it.

Visit www.onehouse.top
Learning & Growth

LMBoK (ePangea)

A forever free, human-centered lifelong-learning platform built around 15 human arts, 48 learning domains, and 6 developmental phases - all shaped by bioregions.

Visit build.onehouse.top
Rhythm & frequencies

Let's Jam!

As much as I love my peace and quiet, a life without music, song or dance is bland.

Let's surf the frequencies together

We are all teachers.
We are all students.
We are all family.
Whether we like it, or not.

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