Second Nature
Sam Vuong, Koshu KuniiWriting from the deeply humanist side of the internet. Everything is downstream from education
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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Serious thinking has gone offline
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Work is how we become human
Jukebox, 1968. Lithograph on paper. The Saul Steinberg Foundation
Work-life balance is a lie we were all told before we even knew what a career was.
It hasn’t always been this way though. The concept of partitioning work and life is a rel...
Against autocomplete for life
24th Street Intersection (1977) by Wayne Thiebaud
We’re worried about the wrong kind of cheating.
Mainstream discourse has reduced the AI conversation to institutional plagiarism and hyper-optimization, in a frenzied rush to not get “left...
You can just not do things
As a corollary to the common “you can just do things,” most people forget that you can also just not do things.
Opting out of school in favor of alternatives like homeschooling is often resisted because people forget this.
You don't need...
How great minds were once formed
Beatrix Potter with a border terrier, photographed by Rupert Potter, 1897. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
For all the default acceptance of modern education, we forget how much of an experiment the concept of school still is.
Homes...
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