Get comfy and ignore your emails for five minutes - it's time to catch up on the week's L&D news and opinion, as picked out by us.

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Skills

- Microsoft wants autistic coders. Can it find them and keep them? (Fast Company)

- 3 steps to build visibility & credibility (Mike Taylor blog)

- The humility-confidence seesaw: The untold secret of great leaders (Buffer)

Industry

- My first Learning Live! (Krystyna Gadd, LPI)

- The Creativity Zone at Learning Live (Amys MOOC blog)

- Courseware LMSs – Good or bad for the industry? (E-Learning Info 24/7)

Performance

- Passion projects the future of learning? (Anne Marie Rattray, LinkedIn)

- Why fads and gimmicks should be resisted in the classroom (Chronotype blog)

Education

- How Google is schooling Apple and Microsoft in the battle for America's classrooms (Fast Company)

- University of Essex improves conditions for postgraduates who teach (Times Higher Education)

- Cut-throat academia leads to 'natural selection of bad science', claims study (The Guardian)

Social

- Social Learning: A window into what’s really going on in your business (HT2 blog)

- Comfort, solidarity and advice – benefits of a Social Age (Sea Salt Learning)