I’m working my way through David Epstein’s excellent book “Range”.
The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concerntration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization.
David Epstein. Introduction of Range
I’m savoring this book as it’s helping me solve a particular itch to the problem of automation (something I dwell on frequently). Thoughts to follow here.
A short reflection on the Shirky Principle in Education – from the perspective of a K12 education company.
A reflection on Marcus Aurelius’s aphorism: “Give full attention and devotion to each act.”
Switching attention leaves residue. Sometimes I feel like I’m swimming through that residue. The schemas I’m holding need focused and sustained attention, and the cludgy remnants of previous mental states and distractions makes the thinking I enjoy turn into thinking that is exhausting (and poorly done).