Letter to Shane
v5
Hi Shane,
Do you offer consulting services? We are building a 4-year college level program, where 'Learning How to Learn' and rapid learning across disciplines are a core theme. 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, literally to regain one's genius (98% of 5 year olds appear to be geniuses). The rest of the time is collaborative design and learning to build things . 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). Education focused explicitly on solving pressing world issues, and distribution in economics, is a related goal. I can fill you in on our model of change if you'd like.
We need help in organizing courses consisting of sets of 24 survey, 1 hour lessons. Each course would be exposing key topics of rapid learning, 'learning how to learn', moral intelligence, peak performance, architecture of knowledge, general semantics, mental models, numeracy, writing, etc - think of the type of stuff you write on your blog. But also with developing strategies for how to learn effectively - by topic, technology, sector, discipline or area of knowledge, endeavor - etc - in order to recognize underlying patterns of structure such that a student can take on a new area and learn about it in the most effective way. The goal is to teach somebody how to reach the 'edge of knowledge' in any field or endeavor - to be able to identify unsolved frontiers, important questions, points of improvement, etc - such that the individual is enabled to contribute seminal progress in that field. This sounds much like what one does after a postdoc, but we would like to enable any candidate with an open mind - cultivated by 'learning how to learn' - to reach this in 4 years from entering our program at 18 yo or so. And being able to reach the edge of knowledge in any endeavor, whether tech, medicine, education, poetry, manufacturing, international relations, farming, space exploration, etc. This would be done in conjunction with developing physical learning labs (the Rapid Learning Facility) which facilitates the most effective pedagogy via a modular ecosystem of learning experiments where students build, produce, or otherwise create tangible products.
If this is not interesting to you at this time, can you suggest someone else who may be able to help on the curriculum? 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
v4
Hi Shane,
Do you offer consulting services? We are building a 4-year college level program, where 'Learning How to Learn' and rapid learning across disciplines are a core theme. 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, literally to regain one's genius (98% of 5 year olds appear to be geniuses). The rest of the time is learning to build things and 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). Education focused explicitly on solving pressing world issues is a related goal. I can fill you in on our model of change if you'd like. What we need help on is organizing courses consisting of sets of 24 survey, 1 hour lessons. Each course would be exposing key topics of rapid learning, 'learning how to learn', moral intelligence, peak performance, etc - think of the type of stuff you write on your blog. But also with developing strategies for how to learn effectively - by topic, technology, sector, discipline or area of knowledge, endeavor - etc - in order to recognize underlying patterns of structure such that a student can take on a new area and learn about it in the most effective way. The goal is to teach somebody how to reach the 'edge of knowledge' in any field or endeavor - to be able to identify unsolved frontiers, important questions, points of improvement - such that the individual is enabled to contribute seminal progress in that field. This sounds much like what one does after a postdoc, but we would like to enable any candidate with an open mind - cultivated by 'learning how to learn' - but reach this in 4 years from entering our program at 18 yo or so. And being able to reach the edge of knowledge in any endeavor, whether tech, medicine, education, poetry, manufacturing, international relations, farming, space exploration, etc.
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
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
