Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

What are you especially sensitive to, the way the princess was sensitive to the pea?

i’ll admit i had two people in mind with this question. one is @zooko, who seems especially sensitive to censorship, broadly construed — i.e., people monkeying with his information feeds. true/false/maybe?

the other is @webdevMason, who seems to have a heightened sensitivity to children’s growing minds (in some way that i’d love to hear her try to put into words)

I really see what we're doing to most kids in school as equivalent to a nonsurgical lobotomy — I think it likely damages cognition, attention & motivation. But my *VISCERAL HORROR* is that I believe it may make them less themselves, less of whatever we mean when we say "person."

Yeaaaaah... I don't think you have to give 4-year-olds lifelong recollections of their own inadequacy in order to have top-notch programmers