everything is a conversation

every act of avoidance reinforces avoidance as a strategy, and consecrates the thing avoided as A Thing To Be Avoided

There is no way of getting it perfect. There is no complete, no finish line, no done. There is simply “What’s the next experiment?” There is only play.

Universities claim to promote social mobility but inadvertently perpetuate social hierarchies, whereas the military is an explicit hierarchy that inadvertently promotes social mobility.

the most transformative dialogues often feature exploration rather than predetermined outcomes. We don’t know what we want, and we use conversation to get closer to articulating our desire. Some conversations are infinite, like games for their own sake.

Knowledge isn’t transferred; it’s born through the dialogue itself. The teacher becomes not an authority delivering pre-packaged wisdom but a partner in bringing forth what was somehow already there, unrecognized.