Haha in the 90s and early aughts we believed in “lifelong learning”
Now we know that’s a mug’s game.
Trick is to learn just enough in a rentier game to feel slightly smug, then getting very tactical with it.
Further actual leaning is for hobbies. Pick fun, escapist ones.
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Or was the ideal of “lifelong learning” always about non-ends-oriented exploration and you’re just being a Gecko?
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Tom Friedman told everyone it was about surviving in a flat world
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That is once again hauntingly, cynically ... prescient. „Learn just enough in a rentier game...“ uagh...
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This seems like a repeat of 320BCE. 'Zhuangzi noted: The pursuit of knowledge is infinite, the body is not. Using what is not, to pursue what is, will surely shorten yr life.'
Knowledge-costs are a roller-coaster.
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Always just pick fun ones. Figure out how to make them profitable.
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Ah! this is basically a theme of a website/blog I’m working on! Much more eloquent than I’ve managed so far though 😅
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