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
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2/ Start at CEO/POTUS/Nobel/Rock Star and then lower down to 'burger flipper' as you fail downwards aspirationally
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3/ This is really shitty for 2 reasons: first, most work is framed as a failure mode on some hierarchy of accomplishment
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4/ Second, and MUCH worse, work that's not on the "settling for less" sights-lowering gaze path isn't contemplated at all
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5/ We end up in this bind because work is conflated with role, role with identity, identity with class status
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6/ What if instead, education were framed around lowest possible *habits* with progressive raising of sights based on composing habit-sets?
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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
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8/ Instead of targeting a social class through work, you'd decouple that and traverse an individualized level-up hierarchy
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9/ This is more likely to diverge than converge. You'll get more unique.
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10/ Instead of convergent apples to apples competition for roles you'll need to compose teams that are even more unique than members
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11/ Interchangeability is for robots, humans can decouple social class+status from work identity. Their convergence is historical accident
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12/ 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' is a dumb waterfall-plan question for a creative leisure society.
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Instead, ask, 'What will you be after the next education sprint?' Self-directed learning is *necessarily* bottom-up, divergent and agile
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'Accident', not a feature of the bourgeois order? Will think on this.
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