My guest today is Zach Caceres. He is an experienced software engineer and focuses on modern web technologies. He is interested in education and ##StartupCities and initiated a couple of cool projects in the relevant areas.

In today's episode, we discussed:

• Zach's unschooling experiences at a young age and his way of learning.
• Why choose to go back to university later on?
• Hilarious stories on the arbitrary bureaucracy of our modern education
• What's the essence of education?
• Case study of innovating education from within Guatemala's top university
• Sneak peek of The Intuitive Programmer project, learning how to learn
• What's community technology? What's Startup City?
• Stories on informal entrepreneurs and almost dead experience in Africa and South America.
• How does technology power up the city building and enhance people's living conditions?
• Brief introduction of Benjamin Blooms's two sigma problems
• What's 'The Great Fact' raised by Deirdre McCloskey
• What get you most excited about the future?

Books and links mentioned in this episode:

1. Zach's super cool website
2. Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
3. Innovating Education from Within Guatemala's Top University
4. Professor Barbara Oakley
5. Polymath Michael Polanyi
6. The Intuitive Programmer: Learning How to Learn Programming
7. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
8. Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley | TEDxOaklandUniversity
9. Focused vs. diffuse thinking: which is better for learning?
10. Pathological Altruism
11. The Start Of Startup Cities
12. Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US!
13. CityDAO: Blockchain Cities IRL
14. Informal Entrepreneurship
15. Stealth of Nations by Robert Neuwirth
16. City of God movie
17. Amazing video shows 10-story high-rise built in a day
18. Maybe the Coronavirus Was Lower-Hanging Fruit
19. Benjamin Blooms's two sigma problems
20. Khan Academy
21. Duolingo
22. Ad Astra Academy
23. The Great Fact- the humongous increase in humans' standard of living that began about 200 years ago.