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What Chris Williamson Says About Education
29 episodes about education
Life is hard. This podcast will help.
Key Insights on Education
The underlying AI technology exponential has progressed roughly as expected, moving from 'smart high school student to smart college student to beginning PhD level' - Dario
- The 'learning budget' strategy involves dedicating 1-10% of monthly income to skill acquisition and business experiments
- "If you can't explain it to a smart high school student, you don't understand it" - Chris wrote Read Write Own as crypto's 2024 onboarding manual for skeptics
- Communication and education help average people access medical wisdom and research they wouldn't otherwise have
- Network School has brought people from over 100 countries in just one year, proving cloud communities can be printed into physical reality
- Marcus Aurelius spent 20 years learning from Antoninus Pius, while his son Commodus rejected mentorship and ended the Pax Romana
- Complex systems require learning through experience and experimentation, not following expert instructions like complicated systems
- University of San Luis Gonzaga in Ica, Peru houses controversial tridactyl mummies dated approximately 1,800 years old
Episodes
The Hidden Cost Of Overthinking Everything - George Mack - #1111
Harvard Professor: Why Nothing Feels Real Anymore - Arthur Brooks - #1109
Birth Rate Debate: Why Is No One Having Kids? -
21 Harsh Truths About Why You’re Still Lost - Mark Manson -
The Rise of History’s Greatest Emperor: An Untold Story - Alex Petkas -
David Friedberg - Everything You Know is About to Collapse
Will Guidara - The Hotdog Effect: Secrets of the World’s #1 Restaurants
Gurwinder Bhogal - 19 Uncomfortable Truths About Human Nature
Dr Debra Soh - Why Nobody is Having Sex Anymore (& why it matters)
Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over
Louis Theroux - Is The Manosphere Really That Dangerous?
Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)
Dr Kathryn Paige Harden - The Genetics of Evil: Are People Born Bad?
Charlie Houpert - How to Survive the Death of Your Old Self
Dave Evans - It’s time to rethink your entire life plan
4.1M Q&A - Health Update, Sobriety & Finding The One
Matthew Hussey - How to Know When to Leave a Relationship
Paul Rosolie - Uncontacted Tribes, Jungle Warfare & Being Eaten Alive
Nick Shirley - Inside Minnesota's $10B Childcare Fraud Scandal
Arthur Brooks - 14 Habits for an Optimised Morning & Evening Routine
Dr Andrew Huberman - How to Reclaim Your Brain in 2026
4M Subscriber Q&A
Dr. Gabrielle Lyon - The Environmental Toxins Killing Your Health
Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love
Peter Zeihan - The New World Order Is Here
Dr Paul Hewitt - Understanding the Psychology of Perfectionism
What Risk Builds Men? | Scott Galloway
44 Harsh Truths About The Game Of Life - Naval Ravikant (4K)
Naval Ravikant - 44 Harsh Truths About Human Nature
Books on education
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