A Useful Metaphor In the first chapter of The Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt introduces the metaphor of the rider and … More
Category: School
Anti-Academia Academics
There’s a certain sort of person who sets their ideas up as explicitly “intellectual” yet explicitly opposed to academia. A few … More
Short Critiques of (Humanities) Academia
Today’s subway station thoughts: I originally got into reading Less Wrong because it seemed a lot like academia except with … More
A Mathematician’s Lament, or: How I learned to hate Math Class and appreciate Math
From A Mathematician’s Lament, by Paul Lockhart: Everyone knows that something is wrong. The politicians say, “we need … More
On School and Failure
The following is taken from a Quora answer by Marcus Geduld. The question asked was, “Why do we get frustrated … More