Letter to Shane

v3

Hi Shane,

Do you offer consulting services? We are building a 4-year college level program, where 'Learning How to Learn' is a foundation for integrated problem-solving ability. You already distilled much on 'learning how to learn' - on your blog and in your book. So I'm reaching out.

The curriculum would be 2 days per week focused explicitly on learning how to learn and to solve problems, literally to regain one's genius (98% of 5 year olds appear to be geniuses, as I am sure you already know) - which may largely lost by 18 years of age, our target population. The rest of the time is learning to build things, as fueled by collaborative design. The program is not virtual - but both 'books' and a Rapid Learning Facility for hands-on learning. One of our goals is to solve the essential problem defined in Excellent Sheep by Deresiewicz (this issue traumatized me during my Princeton undergrad) - by rolling out a more integrated version of education for a more collaborative world. Another goal is education focused explicitly on solving pressing world issues, with a fundamental approach based on collaborative, open, enterprise ecosystems.

If this is not interesting to you at this time, can you suggest someone else - ideally entrepreneurial types who understand the difference between vision and execution? We are allocating half our budget to rapid learning curriculum development, and the other half to enterprise design. If we can come up with a scope and budget, I am confident we can fund it.

Thanks, Marcin

v2

Hi Shane, 

Do you offer consulting services? We are building a 4-year college level program, where half of the program focuses on  'Learning How to Learn', which in our view is critical for integrated problem-solving. Our goal is enterprise for solving pressing world issues at an essential level. You already wrote tons of essence on 'learning how to learn' on your blog and in your book, so I'm reaching out. 

The curriculum would be 2 days per week focused explicitly on learning how to learn and to solve problems, literally to regain one's genius (98% of 5 year olds appear to be geniuses, as I am sure you already know) - which may largely lost by 18 years of age, our target population. The rest of the time is learning to build things, as fueled by collaborative design. The program is not virtual - but both 'books' and a Rapid Learning Facility for hands-on learning. One of our goals is to solve the essential problem defined in Excellent Sheep by Deresiewicz (this issue traumatized me during my Princeton undergrad) - by rolling out a more compelling version of education for increasingly integrated humans.

If this is not interesting to you at this time, can you suggest someone else - ideally entrepreneurial types who understand the difference between vision and execution? We are allocating half our budget to rapid learning curriculum development, and the other half to enterprise design. If we can come up with a scope and budget, I am confident we can fund it. 

Thanks, Marcin

v1

Hi Shane (from Farnam Street blog), 

Do you offer consulting services? We are building a 4-year college level program, where half of the program focuses on  'Learning How to Learn', which in our view is critical for integrated problem-solving. Our goal is enterprise for solving pressing world issues at an essential level. You already wrote tons of essence on 'learning how to learn' on your blog and in your book, so I'm reaching out. 

The curriculum would be 2 days per week focused explicitly on learning how to learn and to solve problems, literally to regain one's genius (98% of 5 year olds appear to be geniuses, as I am sure you already know) - which may largely lost by 18 years of age, our target population. The rest of the time is learning to build things, as fueled by collaborative design. The program is not virtual - but both 'books' and a Rapid Learning Facility for hands-on learning. One of our goals is to solve the essential problem defined in Excellent Sheep by Deresiewicz (this issue traumatized me during my Princeton undergrad). We believe that moral intelligence provides purpose for learning how to learn. We believe that hands-on immersion, and building real things to solve real problems is key to accelerated learning - which we think can and will emerge before the Singularity as the new paradigm in learning. Otherwise, society will not solve problems faster than they are created.

If this is not interesting to you at this time, can you suggest someone else - ideally entrepreneurial types who understand the difference between vision and execution? We are allocating half our budget to rapid learning curriculum development, and the other half to enterprise design. If we can come up with a scope and budget, I am confident we can fund it. 

Thanks, Marcin