Tag: teaching
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Hey everyone, I am in Kosmos!
Not in outer space this time, but it’s pretty damn close. The Kosmos magazine I cooperate with just published a guided tour of my interactive smart home. If you look closely, you can see a small photo of me on the top. Kosmos is the voice of wisdom and empowerment I wish I had in…
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Learn to open
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. Pema Chodron
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Time spent at school is mostly time wasted
I recently wrote about how modern education is completely detached from the things it is supposed to teach, and how it’s most visible for foreign languages. I don’t think foreign languages are taught less effectively than, say, chemistry or literature. It’s just much easier to verify the results in real life. You can be a…
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Teaching children to walk, the safe and empowering way
I don’t remember how it’s like to learn how to walk. According to my parents, it was a painful process for everyone involved. I managed to master the art of getting up and gaining speed long before I was able to decelerate and sit safely back down. In result, for the first few weeks I…
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If you want a revolution, burn the ships
I’m a huge fan of Lambda School and have been following them for several months now. It’s a coding school that only earns a percentage of your salary after you get a job for more than $50k/year, their success rate is absolutely mind blowing, and now they closed a big fundraising round to expand their…
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There is no such thing as teaching. But you can, and should, help people learn
A few months ago I took the challenge to teach deep, technical troubleshooting to anyone who’s interested. So far in my team, only the folks with some coding background worked on complex technical stuff. Nobody ever taught us to troubleshoot, we kinda learned it as a side effect of coding, and trying to fix our…
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