how far are willing to go?

05 May 2015

How far are you willing to go to make your learning meaningful? #xAPI

— Will Constantine (@willconstantine) April 30, 2015

this should be emblazoned above whatever threshold one should cross to even get at #xAPI https://t.co/nwAcf3pBjP

— craig wiggins (@oxala75) April 30, 2015

Sometimes when I step back from being an xAPI evangelist to survey the landscape, I am reminded that not only can you not make a horse drink, some horses really weren't meant to drink from anything but the trough. If we're sticking with the metaphor, xAPI is for those willing to follow rivers to their sources.

Here's the thing, though: I kind of don't blame the trough horses. There's a wide world of opportunities, risks, and incremental rewards and failures that sit between the stable and the river in the valley. Even fewer horses defy reins and veer toward the source, however sweeter the waters might be there.

.@kb95bm01 here you go, Brian :) #xapi pic.twitter.com/ozHZVUGQVu

— craig wiggins (@oxala75) April 3, 2015

For a good many horses the trough is enough. Until they get restless, all we can do is clear a path.