I think it’s time we started teaching technology like we teach biology. Starting with recognizing and classifying common species of tech, dissecting a few specimens, looking through microscope at some stuff, teaching design in an evolutionary-history way, old tech = dinosaurs...
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Thinking back, this is how most people actually learn anyway. The physics and math foundations come far later.
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The more artificially complex our environment becomes, the more important is the ability of reduction to first principles.
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I actually think first principles are overrated and do more harm than good if overemphasized. “Middle principles” of engineering are where much of the intelligence and wisdom are to be found.
.In the Science/Tech echo chamber, maybe, but would argue general pop needs an epinephrine-like dose of first principles.
Only then can we get to middle principles.
We don’t get there directly from analog.


