A question that has been repeatedly coming up for me lately is: when should you act to prevent something failing when you know you have the power to “spot” it and help it not fail in the short term. My default has shifted over 20y from “almost always act” to “almost never act”
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The only exception is “unreasonable effectiveness of X” types of knowledge. X = math, data, etc. Learning equivalent of free lunches. They are very rare but seem ubiquitous because every time we find one we build an institution around it.
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There’s one good reason to hide (but not prevent) failures. It’s a dead give away of a vulnerable learner. Sign that you’re easy sociopath prey. So it’s a safety thing. Fake it till you make it is mostly that kind of value. If you use it for marketing you’ll never stop faking.
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Wonder if school principals feel this way. They lead institutions devoted by design to relentless of failure. The point of a school is for kids to come and fail there for a few hours daily while building up failure tolerance and finding the few things where they fail less.
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In that sense schools fail their “best” students the most. Straight A’s students learn everything except the only thing they need to: how to fail. Failing a class or being held back a grade is stigma. Straight A’s is prestigious. Backwards.
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“Love of learning” is bullshit because taken seriously that translates to “love of failure.” Nobody likes that. Constant failure is a sign you should quit before you die. What people fall in love with is getting unreasonably lucky where you fail less than expected = is “aptitude”
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I think this one warrants some unpacking. Points at some interesting ideas, and clarifications of what you mean. You mean things like Lean Startup don't work because they don't fail slow enough? Or what are you trying to say?
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