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Antagonistic Learning and Civilization (with Duncan Sabien)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Failure Mode

The ideal is not to run alongside your kids. There's a pit, but to actually teach them to avoid the pits, right? I find that a lot of interesting things come out of thinking through this analogy or this metaphor for me. For instance, imagine that the field has only one post. If you tell someone, hey, by the way, somewhere in this infinite field, there is one post that if you run smack into it, it's going to hurt a lot. This has a huge impact in my imagination on the way that a person moves through the field.

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