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."

Thanks, that’s exactly the kind of thing I wanted to hear from you. The second sentence surprises me... suggests I have a blunted sensitivity to it =/

Concrete examples of second sentence things: - Losing the ability to consciously notice something is confusing rather than just "hard" - Losing the ability to consciously notice something is interesting to you - Developing a general aversion to or inability to focus while reading

Can you give some concrete examples of the first one?

- Losing the capacity for/developing an aversion to non-procedural problem-solving - Losing the ability to enter/maintain flow states (due to frequent forceful disruptions) - Erosion of internal motivation to external systems, e.g. tokens or gold stars