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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a school system swings hard in a new direction after an election, what do students and teachers most need protected from the swing, and what should be free to change?”
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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.... 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.... 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?... - grellyshoots...
The Matthew principle, or Matthew effect, is the tendency for people who start with an advantage to gain even more advantages over time, while those who start with less fall further behind
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.... - 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... - 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.... - marcello...
How about
disengaged
? - 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... - joshua...
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.... I believe it’s likely that Race is correlated to IQ. I would like to see data that substantiates this. It seems to me that the majority view is that anyone that would agree that Race and IQ are correlated is a racist, and that’s concerning to me.... - 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... - cindym...
Vance, high IQ and EQ
- annabeth...
School shootings = the collective unconscious mass murdering our own childlike innocence
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... - 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.... - Minnie...
I also enjoyed working with kids. I was a teacher,(K-8) for 12 years, but worked as a paraprofessional (3K-12)until I retired. My favorite grades were 1st, 4th and high school.... - CoachWebb13...
I would absolutely eliminate world hunger and homelessness. When people have their basic needs met then they can focus on other areas such as education. Think of what it could be built if you weren't hungry or locking shelter?... - Sarah Sirena...
Thanks for this Jordan! I totally agree on bringing back a humble appreciation of spirituality in the mundane, and that an inflated sense of preciousness and specialness and hyper - "sacredness" has prevailed in the wellness/self help world/ spirituality world....