Notes
- Always do what feels right
- What is the relationship between self-awareness and intelligence?
- If after death, a deity tells you you didn’t fulfill your life’s purpose that it put you on earth to fulfill, what would that have been?
- Outside stimulation is necessary for coming up with good ideas
- Why am I interested in alt-ed?
- What might a more physical & tactile computing experience look like for kids?
- A mind cannot be defined independently of its social environment
- If you already like doing something, receiving external rewards decreases intrinsic motivation
- Why do Alpha School rewards not undermine intrinsic motivation?
- How can we better teach metacognition?
- Reciprocal teaching appears to have a very large effect size
- What is the future of the university?
- What projects make sense to work on if you believe AGI is coming in <5 years?
- What will an hour of biokinetic release for a month do to me?
- Metacognition may be the most important skill
- Montessori teaches proto-metacognition
- Planning is priceless, plans are worthless
- Almost all personality traits are heritable, but you can override genetic programming
- How might we scale high quality education?
- How can Montessori principles be used to scaffold kids' introduction to technology?
- Do I want to do a PhD?
- How can I produce Long Content?
- Is Montessori more effective than traditional schooling?
- What are examples of Slow Science?
- How can I have a better rest ethic?
- How can I allow my thinking to accrete over time?
- How do you avoid a microschool being indistinguishable from a private school?
- What do I want to see in the world?
- What does it mean to understand the brain?
- What makes for a high quality education?
- Comic Co-Creation Workflow
- New ideas require thinking through things yourself before learning what others think
- Unpredictable upsides of cognitive offloading
- Discovery of something the rest of the world already knows is still a valuable discovery
- Ideas are not knowledge until they are tested or experienced
- Public schools don't enforce a specific educational culture
- Build systems to revisit ideas
- Children use age as a proxy for status
- Confirmation bias is the one to watch for
- Consider the opposite
- Focus on what you want to see more of
- People are extremely ready to generate beliefs about the world
- Take a stand
- Techniques to scale an opinionated educational culture
- Treat answers as tools
- Ways to counteract confirmation bias
- Ambitious goals are useful as they illuminate a path that maximizes learning and enjoyment, not as ends in themselves
- Concretely describe your utopia
- Write about what you read
- Doing excellent work takes many iterations
- Humans preferentially learn from those we consider high status
- Default beliefs about any topic are likely unexamined but still affect behavior
- Design your environment as scaffolding towards creating the world you want to see
- Develop short feedback loops with reality