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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a school has to cut something, what is the last thing you would sacrifice, and why that thing?”
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My close friends started a quasi-gang when I was in middle school (roughly 13 years old) after watching a 1981 movie called "The Wave" which was ironically screened in their class to point out how easy it was to lead to Nazism. I haven't seen the movie.... - Arun...
Reading as Interaction, as Encounter
This is something I've been reflecting on, and which I wish had been shown/taught to me earlier. I used to think of books as something like repositories. Of knowledge stuff, of stories, of experience. And so reading was like a process of extraction.... Economic Class is the biggest discrimination factor today?
Back in my 20s, I used to read Paul Graham and bought into the whole entrepreneur is a magical wizard that takes disproportionate risks and deserves all the wealth and equity they receive. But, that assumed a good social safety net and level playing field.... It’s very strange. Has me wonder who aspires to be a journalist these days? Is it mostly young adults who are left-leaning because of the state of the industry they’re entering into? Are journalism schools teaching with a left-leaning bias?... - annabeth...
Oppress me
Is it possible? Can you oppress me right now? Context: The guy I’m dating (Ken) had said he was frustrated with the Austin School District teachers that he’s teaching Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to because they were all giving wrong answers to the question, "Who is the... How to make skills of depth/presence/development legible to others?
I've had this fantasy for the past year of creating a YT live stream show that features different teachers, facilitators, healers of different modalities and somehow make legible what they're doing to a larger audience.... - josefine...
Yum. I love this sentence: "We’re working with and hosting energies that are larger than individual personalities and my sense is they want to flow freely." I tend to forget this.... The systemic lens is very important here. As well as how the IQ test was created. Not like "ohh there are many forms of intelligence and this just captures one", but like the IQ test captures a specific way of interpretting that flavor of intelligence and doesn’t honor how it... I think there’s just much better arguments and people than Terrance. I’d suggest looking at First Principles & First Values book if you want a critique that’s compelling on how academia/scientificism has taken... - annabeth...
Dude, true. And there’s a surprising amount of timidity and pushback around the Believability scores that I think falls into this category too. As I’m building the Relateful Skills course I want there to be pay tiers for the coaches and I’m intending to use the believability... - annabeth...
- zookatron...
Agreed, and given that I am not very optimistic about finding a perfect process or system that prevents issues like the accretion and overreach of power, I definitely resonate with the desire you express in your original post about wanting to have better people working in places... The best ways I've found to use AI are explaining concepts to me that I can easily grok but just am not familiar with, to do simple tasks that I can audit, and as a search engine.... - Jay Williams...
I think our difficulty comes from making something complex and difficult that is actually very easy. What kind of future do we prepare our children for? Excellence in human relationship. That’s not going to change. Whatever else changes, that will always be the same.... - MK1752...
I don't buy the valuation that is being used to describe Musk as a trillionaire, but that said, if I did miraculously find myself with that much money in hand, this would be my plan: 1. Start a restaurant chain offering healthy fast food.... - josefine...
Providing environments for learning
Imagine you’re attending a meditation workshop and the facilitator invites you to lean into stillness. After a few seconds, they start giving cues on how to be still, one after another, followed by reading a passage from a book about meditation, and then it ends.... - david...
Is the Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis dialectic too constraining?
Stephanie Lepp has started a project called "Faces of X" – don’t worry, X doesn’t mean Twitter, rather X as in "fill in the blank" See: https://www.facesofx.org/p/interview-the-glenn-show?r=1gw0e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web She is trying to break people out of either or...