The Failure Mode

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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.

Why do "antagonistic" teachers exist in popular culture but not in the classroom? What happens to student outcomes when "antagonistic" learning is implemented in real classrooms? What is the Field Theory of Parenting? What are things that we can do for others but can't do for ourselves? How can we notice and utilize costly and unfakeable signals? What is the core definition of civilization? How can we influence others ethically? Is explicit communication always better than implicit?

Duncan wants to leave the universe noticeably different than it was before he arrived, and he's currently trying to do this through making things and teaching people. He has a background in LEGO, parkour, and middle grades education, and is easily manipulated by people quoting Ender's Game. You can find out more about him at thirdfoundation.github.io.

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