You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.

Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more

generative AI is but the latest in a line of innovations that draws attention to the flaws of the modern education system, leaving us to question how well it's preparing us for the quickly evolving and increasingly turbulent future ahead. Could this be the final straw? The key to unlocking re-evaluation of our educational philosophies at a massive... See more

If kids are reading this, depending on who you are, college is probably still worthwhile right now, but 5 years from now, I expect things will be quite different. Peter Thiel has run a really interesting experiment with his Thiel Fellows program whose graduates (including Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin) have done far better than university... See more