Dammit, trending small majority not heard of it 🙁
Wanted to use it as a metaphor for a piece. Didn’t realize it was that obscure.
I think I learned it in 8th grade by which time I think STEM kids were already on a separate track. For the curious ones:
I keep forgetting how early STEM forks off from mainstream. In my high school, there were 4 tracks: CS and biology on STEM side (targeting engineering and medicine for college) and commerce and arts for humanities/social science side. I think ~40% was STEM and that was high.
There’s a bunch of “charismatic megascience” stuff that non-STEM people hear about like theory of relativity and e=mc^2 but the 90% of mundane shit STEMmies pick up over 8 years of high school and undergrad is basically alien territory for 2/3 of the population.
In DC/MD on public school side, testing in 5th grade funneled kids to “magnet schools” starting in 6th grade, so the divergence started by 12 years old?
There must be research on resulting worldview (+ socioeconomic mobility) schism out there by now.
If you’re feeling dissipated, a trick is to prioritize the project with the highest partial pressure while still paying the bills. Analogous to paying off the highest interest rate debt first. Except from the credit side. twitter.com/vgr/status/132…
Yup, exactly, thanks… did you ever end up writing that post you alluded to in the initial thread? Or perhaps in a drafts folder somewhere as an unfinished loop?