Andrei Stoica

If the culture in a school is at odds with its pedagogical goals, energy will be wasted trying to deal with the friction between these value systems: You get disruptive students and motivation issues. An educator might have an easier time if they found a way to align the peer culture with the pedagogy. But crafting aligned cultures is not how... See more

I prefer a different definition of wokeness, one that gets at the heart of the substantive difference: Wokeness prioritizing the reduction of outcome-disparities (i.e. equity) ahead of equal treatment under the law (i.e. liberty) Put differently, wokeness is believing that inequality between groups of people is a problem that we should try to... See more

One best practice in React is to lift the state up in the component hierarchy. The documentation says:

Often, several components need to reflect the same changing data. We recommend lifting the shared state up to their closest common ancestor.

But it's also true that right now is a great time to do something ambitious. Robin Hanson calls the present "the dreamtime", following a concept in Aboriginal myths: the time when the future world order and its values are still liquid, not yet set in stone.

This home obviously isn’t anything resembling “modern” architecture, and the front of the house has a great deal of ornamentation. Stone cladding, decorative shutters, faux lintels over the windows, and so on. On the sides , however, there’s virtually nothing: no stone cladding, no decoration on the windows, almost no ornament whatsoever. (In many... See more