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What he means by heroic is less about saving the world and closer to the pathless path: a journey of finding yourself, grappling with your insecurities, and daring to seek out a life that is uniquely yours. Becker argues that prescribed paths of the modern world can trap people into conforming to the expectations of others instead of taking steps t
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Shall I make him the narrator of his own tale?"
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
- The Rediscovery of Language
Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
"empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them"
Ivan Illich - Deschooling Society
The “Things I Like To Do” Hierarchy
When Duckworth explained her “goal hierarchy” to the economist Steven Levitt, he replied, “I don’t have goals exactly. I have things that I like to do.” At the top of his “things I like to do” hierarchy is that “I love to play with ideas. I love it when there’s a difficult problem and it seems like it can’t b
... See moreWe must conceive of new relational structures which are deliberately set up to facilitate access to these resources for the use of anybody who is…
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Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
his human flock, and it was thus right and natural for his subjects to obey him
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Identifying a commonly held belief, peeling back the assumptions it is built upon, and restlessly seeking interventions and leverage points for greater impact is the life cycle of a challenger.