- Jun 2024
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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To Martin a liberal education meant “the kind of education which setsthe mind free from the servitude of the crowd and from vulgar self-interests.”
He didn't have the framework to describe it in behavioral economic terms, but Everett Dean Martin's idea of a liberal education in 1926 was to encourage the use of Kahneman & Tversky's system two over system one. It takes more work, but system two thinking can generally beat out system one gut reactions for building a better life.
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- Feb 2024
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Our Western notion of happiness seems to come from the Greeks,who defined it as “the exercise of vital powers along lines of excellencein a life affording them scope.”15
quote from <br /> Hamilton, Edith. The Greek Way. W. W. Norton & Co., 1942: 35.
Coincidence that I just started this a few weeks back...
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- Jan 2024
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thetodaysystem.com thetodaysystem.com
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while you can plan days, weeks, and months out—you can only get things done today
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- Aug 2023
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The task is to have a communitynevertheless, and to discover means of using specialties topromote it. This can be done through the Great Conversa-tion.
We need some common culture to bind humanity together. Hutchins makes the argument that the Great Conversation can help to effectuate this binding through shared culture and knowledge.
Perhaps he is even more right in the 2000s than he was in the 1950s?
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Undoubtedly the first task of the statesman in such countriesis to raise the standard of living to such a point that thepeople may be freed from economic slavery and given thetime to get the education appropriate to free men.
A bulk of America was stuck in a form of economic slavery in the 1950s. See description of rural Texans in Robert Caro's LBJ biography for additional context --- washing/scrubbing, carrying water, farming, etc. without electricity in comparison to their fellow Americans who did have it.
In the 21st century there is a different form of economic slavery imposed by working to live and a culture of consumption and living on overextended credit.
Consider also the comedic story of the capitalist and the rural fisherman and the ways they chose to live their lives.
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- Jun 2023
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Havron, Anna. “Getting the Right Things Done,” 2023. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f64c2a45a59eb66a7264992/t/6468cc1048157b44f53b2e08/1684589584608/Handout+and+worksheet+for+making+a+values+plan%2C+Micro+Camp+2023.pdf.
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- Jan 2023
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thebaffler.com thebaffler.com
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But in the new full-blown capitalist version of evolution, where the drive for accumulation had no limits, life was no longer an end in itself, but a mere instrument for the propagation of DNA sequences—and so the very existence of play was something of a scandal.
Could refuting the idea of accumulation without limits (and thus capitalism for capitalism's sake) help give humans more focus on what is useful/valuable?
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- Aug 2022
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regenesis.org.au regenesis.org.au
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The purpose of this secular knowledge system is not intrinsically about wellbeing, ethics and goodness per se; it is about the search for truth and efficacy—be that for competing ideas about what is good, for the purposes of competitive advantage in commerce or national prestige, or for destructive purposes linked to warfare and security.
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ljvmiranda921.github.io ljvmiranda921.github.io
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I stole the title from this Substack post. I cannot put this much better than them: “we’ve chosen to optimize for feelings— to bring the quirks and edges of life back into software. To create something with soul.” Enjoyment is an important component of my day to day.
Optimizing for feelings seems to be a broader generational movement (particularly for the progressive movement) in the past decade or more.
https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/optimizing-for-feelings #wanttoread
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thoughtcatalog.com thoughtcatalog.com
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Montaigne once teased the writer Erasmus, who was known for his dedication to reading scholarly works, by asking with heavy sarcasm “Do you think he is searching in his books for a way to become better, happier, or wiser?” In Montaigne’s mind, if he wasn’t, it was all a waste.
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- Jun 2022
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The paradox of hoarding isthat no matter how much we collect and accumulate, it’s neverenough.
How is the paradox of hoarding related to the collector's fallacy?
Regardless of how much you collect, you can't take it with you. So what's the value? - Having and using it to sustain you while you're alive. - Combining it in creative ways to leave behind new ideas and new innovations for those who follow you. - others?
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hybridpedagogy.org hybridpedagogy.org
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“None of the women and men emerging from our schools in the next decade should expect to lead to purely mechanical, conforming, robotic lives. They must not be resigned to thoughtlessness, passivity, or lassitude if they are to find pathways through the nettles, the swamps, the jungles of our time.” ~ Maxine Greene, Releasing the Imagination
I appreciate the poetry in this on top of the broader sentiment.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Some of his happiest moments, he said, were when he worked on political campaigns: “You think you are going to make a difference that’s going to be better for the country, and especially for widows and orphans and people who don’t even know your name and never will know your name. Boy, that’s probably as good as it gets.”
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- Feb 2022
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reallifemag.com reallifemag.com
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a new conviction structured the next decade of my life: The un-annotated life was not worth living.
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www.teachthought.com www.teachthought.com
- Dec 2021
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learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet01-xythos.content.blackboardcdn.com learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet01-xythos.content.blackboardcdn.com
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‘Security’ takes manyforms. There is the security of knowing one has a statistically smallerchance of getting shot with an arrow. And then there’s the security ofknowing that there are people in the world who will care deeply if oneis.
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The colonial history of Northand South America is full of accounts of settlers, captured oradopted by indigenous societies, being given the choice of wherethey wished to stay and almost invariably choosing to stay with thelatter.
How is this to be interpreted against the idea of Stockholm syndrome, a condition in which hostages develop a psychological bond with their captors during captivity?
Were these people actually captives? Could there have been an effect beyond the idea of one way of life being better than another? Are there example in the other direction?
There's the example in Chagnon's Science paper (1998: 990) in which the nursing student wanted Western culture to visit his Yanomami peoples.
There are also numerous examples of indigenous Americans being captured by Americans and forced to live a life they didn't want to or choose.
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- Nov 2021
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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Seeing this, long-suffering great Odysseus was happy,and lay down in the middle, and made a pile of leaves over him.
What was the Greek for "happy" here? Despite all of the foregoing descriptions of exhaustion and his history of "long-suffering" Odysseus is "happy" for a rest in the least of possibly dangerous and lethal surroundings.
Even the idea of sleep on travel is life-threatening to Odysseus here.
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mailchi.mp mailchi.mp
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You can learn about it here, but fundamentally, there is an assumption on the part of the Siksika that rather than attaining what we would call "self-actualization" over time one is, in fact, born with it and this would seem to inform many other aspects of the culture. Childrearing, for example, is very hands-off, which would make sense if you believed your child arrived basically okay and kind of awesome so why would you fuck with that? Furthermore, their views on wealth suggest that the whole point of attaining wealth is that so you can give it away. The one considered the wealthiest is the one who has given the most away. Which ties into why one has difficulty finding poverty in this environment because the second someone is poor, the rest of the community chips and makes them whole (instead of questioning "well do they really *deserve* to be made whole?" because, again, arrived self-actualized).
I'll make further notes on the actual article, which I want to read.
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- Jun 2021
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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a lot of our assessment system our accountability
a lot of our assessment system our accountability system in education is built around being able to say oh are you on the right path and not acknowledge the multiplicity of paths or in in some ways that the uh the things that are structuring this path is oppressive to our humanity in the first place—Christopher R. Rogers (autogenerated transcript)
He very carefully encapsulates a lot of the issues we've got in modern education here. Should we worry about the "standards" like memorizing and correctly using a semicolon over acknowledging our humanity and removing focus from eudaimonia?
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- Mar 2021
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www.econlib.org www.econlib.org
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Some generally sound advice all around.
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- Sep 2020
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www.ft.com www.ft.com
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Yet there are many good reasons to revisit our working culture, not the least of which being that for most people work brings few rewards beyond a payslip. As the pollster Gallup showed in its momentous survey of working life in 155 countries published in 2017, only one in 10 western Europeans described themselves as engaged by their jobs. This is perhaps unsurprising. After all, in another survey conducted by YouGov in 2015, 37 per cent of working British adults said their jobs were not making any meaningful contribution to the world.
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- Jan 2019
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www.gatesnotes.com www.gatesnotes.com
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So has Warren Buffett, who says his measure of success is, “Do the people you care about love you back?”
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