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Newsletter #2 is out "how kids taste plastic": https://mailchi.mp/cff675c97f57/parent-gossip-44583 …

And as it turns out, according to @gladstein, the Sustainable Development Goals were not terribly good definitions of problems anyway https://twitter.com/rvdericvs/status/1044949159432933376 ….

Though if you choose to solve one of these 17 SDG problems or the 3 MDG problems, it's ok. Because the most expert of experts already failed. And you can't screw up any worse than anybody else.

These problems that important people from @GlobalGoalsUN are not the only problems in the world to solve.

And so in 2015, 189 countries of experts became 193. 8 problems became 17. The deadline of 2015 became 2030. The world "millenium" is replaced into Sustainable Development Goals.

At that time during the year 2000, people were scared and intrigued. Movies were about the end of the world, again. 189 countries that are the more expert of experts agreed to solve problems: poverty, gender inequality, global health, and 5 more.

The millenium was the year 2000, when 2015 sounded like a long time away; just as 2030 sounds a long time away from now.

And with failed solutions, there are two types of people: those who wait for someone smarter / more qualified, and those who find it liberating because they can't screw up any worse than anybody else.

The moment a solution is successful and sufficient, the problem moves from unsolved to solved; or in almost all cases of modern technology and advancement, create new problems we don't yet understand.

And with things unsolved, there is only one type of solution: failed and insufficient.

With things unsolved, there are also two types of people: responding with furrowed brows and by looking at it like a delicious dessert.

There are two types of world: one where everything is solved and the other where there are things unsolved.

When the burden is on the students: the algorithm finds a random average to set as equilibrium, it's no fun, and it pretty much sucks for everybody.

When the burden is on the teachers: the algorithm optimizes for students to understand, given n+1 attempts until the student reaches the goal.

And thus there are two types of learners: teachers and students.

When adults have poor understanding, they are almost always stumped by a kid's "why".