Tag: experiential learning
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400 year sync
Evan Barker’s podcast on the NYC win by Mamdani accidentally creates a 400 year resonance. One of her guests is smoking the modern vape version of an old Dutch long pipe. Strange as it Seems was the best of the 1930s human interest podcasts. My favorite episode dramatizes New Amsterdam’s governor Willem Keeft, a petty…
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Set point?
I won’t doubt modern medicine again! Personal experience is the only teacher. Last week, after stupidly DIY diagnosing the problem as psoriasis, I finally got in to see the real human doctor. (A rare GOOD doctor who listens and understands the whole patient, so he’s worth waiting for.) He knew immediately it isn’t psoriasis because…
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Personal schadenfreude
Via Gizmodo. Chegg, the company that offered a variety of online courses and homework cheats, rose to a fine Tech Tyrant peak of Holy Share Value during the Bush-Trump concentration camp. Investors are cheaters, so they love a cheating technology. Since then, the Tech Tyrants moved on to the superior cheating and stealing of AI,…
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Cursed weight vs sacred weight, 1 of 2
= = = = = MEDIEVAL METROLOGY PART 3 = = = = = Reading some medieval descriptions of weights and measures, noticed that one weight was prohibited by the king and cursed by the archbishop. It was called auncel or aunsell weight. The permitted or blessed balance was generally called the Roman balance. Why…
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Perfect illustration
Here is a perfect illustration of the problem with Democrats and “journalists”. Both are doing everything possible to guarantee that Trump rules forever. Both have forgotten the basic notion of business or “democracy”. In real business or real “democracy” you have several competing choices, each attempting to offer a BETTER PRODUCT that will be PLEASING…
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Foy Rebellion reprint
Linked in previous item about math pope, worth a reprint. = = = = = REPRINT FROM 2022: Yesterday I was discussing the cultural IMPERATIVE to re-employ ordinary men after WW2. France implemented a similar IMPERATIVE after it recovered from the 1789 revolution, which turned its demonic vision of “science” into a god of war…
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Odd specialty
Whoda thunk it? One industrial designer specialized in weird super-streamlined trucks. This Vintage.es article shows a weird 1936 armored car, with an elevated cupola for a tailgunner, designed by Everett Miller. The article mentions that Miller also did the Gilmore fuel oil neon truck and the Arrowhead Spring Water teardrop car. The latter reminds me…
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You have to learn
Comment seen on substack: so now people are pretending like you need an editor to be on substack?! lmaoooo the point is to get rid of gatekeepers and hurdles and barriers shut uupp i write in lowercase and sometimes not and i definitely make typos and none of it serious. we’re all exploring our writing…
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In medieval terms
Substack is full of booklovers and “classical education” fans. They insist that reading more books is the solution to all problems. We have forgotten how to think in complex ways because we no longer read Melville and Milton and Cicero. Exactly backwards. We read and write INFINITELY more than ever before. The web is text.…
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Voice of experience
This guy knows what he’s talking about. He was formerly the Canadian director of NORAD, and worked with US officials and military. He realized that Trump’s threats were bluff and bluster in his first term, but sees Trump as serious about annexation this time. He correctly appreciates that the Canadian government is FINALLY becoming POPULIST…
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What we lost
In previous item I focused on our loss of innovation and flexibility after we switched to all finance and all monopoly. China and Russia didn’t make the switch, so they continued working with LIMITED RESOURCES. Now they’ve beaten our stupid MAX-FINANCE and MAX-THEFT approach to AI, with a technique that can run on normal computers…
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Fits the pattern
Quick thought, might be invalid. For a long time I’ve noticed that the Wokies are correct about lots of basic concepts. First and most powerfully, LIVED EXPERIENCE makes better learning than memorizing theories. This has been my guiding passion for many years. Second, the older cultures, including the old Americans and most Africans, know how…
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Will they learn? No.
A big part of the wildfire problem in Calif and Wash is the stubborn refusal to require fireproof buildings. The fancy McMansions built in the middle of the forest have wood siding and wood shake roofs, apparently for “beauty”. This article shows one house that survived the LA fire because it was built to survive.…
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The power of creative work
The animations I’m making for courseware right now have led to a couple of major insights that are now influencing my thinking about other matters. Old rule: teaching is the best way to learn. One insight gives clarity about MLMs and similar phenomena. Substack is full of people who write about writing. This strikes me…
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When you’re in a hole, excavate faster
Political noise isn’t my department, but this is just too delicious. Alan Lichtman had a good reputation as an election predictor. He missed this time. Ideally, when an expert or scientist makes a big mistake he goes into seclusion to rethink his assumptions. Ideally he modifies his theory, or abandons his theory and starts fresh.…
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