Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Some things I've noticed from hanging out with kids but trying to refrain from telling them what to do or stop doing: - They're less efficient but more generative - They invite you to see more of what they do - They less frequently try to use you as a weapon (e.g. "snitching")

(Although I have seen some very creative new flavors of snitching, e.g. "I have a pet peeve, do you want to hear it?" ["Yes."] "...so-and-so always leaves his things on the table by the power outlets. It's SO annoying.")

Thinking a lot about the pros & cons of top-down behavior policing... there's some friction when kids have to negotiate *with each other* to keep noise down or share things/space, but they usually figure it out (not always fairly). This seems like pretty important social practice

Whatever can be learned with distress can be learned better without distress.

What about learning to cope with distress & learning to perform in stressful situations? :) Such an environment is not ideal irl, but all too common. Periodically, if participants knowingly enter into a training space designed to push them to failure, they become antifragile.