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#136 Complexity & Complicatedness - Sam Spurlin on playing hockey, why he quit teaching, studying at Claremont, leaving a PhD program, working pro bono too start his career, complicated vs complex systems, how to deal with ego in organizations, remote work failures, podcasting with his brother, and the importance of a retrospective meeting
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
Did You Become a Teacher After School?
I wanted to ask you first, you did a stint as a teacher. I think it's more like, and I definitely want to dive into dropping out of the program because I think that's like a really interesting positive signal in today's world. But yeah, you, you became a teacher after school. Did you see yourself as plugging away in the school system for 40 years when you were graduating? It's so weird, because I guess I did, right? And there was so much administrative BS and bureaucracy around it.
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