“Literally not one word of this should have or could have been improved. 4/5 stars.”

Agreed, there should be a marketplace where I can budget $5,000-$10,000 to speed run economics, complexity science, or whatever, and pay some verified grad students to work me through a bespoke, guided curriculum with 1-1 tutoring.

The European mind, etc., etc.

Here's my dream team for an 'applied aesthetics' curriculum: 📜 Lisa VanDamme for poetry and literature; 🖼️ Luc Travers for the visual arts (painting for sure, and maybe also sculpture); They don't specialize in art criticism, theory, or history; they specialize in teaching

Apropos of nothing, have you ever noticed that some of the most glorious sunrises happen when the sun must fight through a spread of gray clouds in order to shine? Though there may be less total light on a cloudy day than on a clear one, the contrast—and the luminous struggle to

“What is the rush for kids to learn stuff?” “The rush is that there’s so much to learn, more of it being invented all the time.”

There’s a little-known science of luck, and this is one of its key tenets.