Venkatesh Rao

1/ Our education system is based on the premise that you should set your sights as high as you can at age 14 and progressively lower them

2/ Start at CEO/POTUS/Nobel/Rock Star and then lower down to 'burger flipper' as you fail downwards aspirationally

3/ This is really shitty for 2 reasons: first, most work is framed as a failure mode on some hierarchy of accomplishment

4/ Second, and MUCH worse, work that's not on the "settling for less" sights-lowering gaze path isn't contemplated at all

5/ We end up in this bind because work is conflated with role, role with identity, identity with class status

6/ What if instead, education were framed around lowest possible *habits* with progressive raising of sights based on composing habit-sets?

7/ You would do forward state-space search in A=skill space rather than regression search backward from a goal-role in B=role space. A>>B