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Director of developer experience at the Urbit Foundation

~lagrev-nocfep on Urbit

@sigilante on twitter

1. What is a sigil?
2. What is the most important thing you’ve learned about teaching?
   1. Driven by authoritarian high modernism
   2. Top down imposition
   3. Structural way of understanding context
   4. Industrial revolution
   5. Ten years ago there was online education
   6. MIT open course where
   7. Open up the content to everyone and it will create revolution
   1. Introducing a model that the person gets illuminated from
   2. Humans are good at metaphors
   3. Give them a framework and people will figure it out
   1. These things are measurable
   1. Open problem in computer science
   2. Two classes of complexity
   3. Polynomial time
   4. Vastly exponentially complicated than things that can be solved in a certain time
   5. NP on the hard problems
   1. Has to do with the structure of our attention
   1. 9 years experience
   2. Philosophy of pedagogy
   3. Why doesn’t it make it easy to open up knowledge?
   4. How do you make something relevant?
   5. Strongly in favor of hyper individualist approach to teaching
   6. Interdisciplinary
   7. Try everything, some things stick
   8. Analogical reasoning
   9. How do you improvise for metaphors?
   10. Why is it so disincentivized to do improv?
   11. Input output model doesn’t quite work because the context is so vast
   12. The model of the areas of learning is helpful but not 100% accurate
   13. Tutorial method does not scale but its the most effective
   14. Really hard problem
   15. P=NP what is it?
   16. When I’m working on a particular mode, gumption traps, energy sinks, takes a lot of agency to activate yourself out of the state
   17. Rumsfeld called the unknown unknowns
   18. What questions do you have? Is a better question than What are your questions?
   19. What do you do when you need to solve a problem?
   20. Someone tried to build a solution for what Neal is talking about at 10 minutes in
   21. Go to the fringes to get the edge cases
   22. What is the advantage of a low status sou