Why would someone have pride over their test scores and credentials if the stuff they got good grades for hardly bears any relevance to the quality of the work output they get from the workflows they use everyday?

Written memorization based exams are so futile Dead lifeless knowledge that has dialogue and context for application in its use, no feedback. Taken from a page and dumping it on a page, just a stressful exercise in memorization.

Open Skills & Rich Skill Descriptors: CTDL Enables Connections & Collaboration credentialengine.org/toolkit/open... credentialengine.org/toolkit/comp... "Includes many thousands of open competencies and skills that can be reused and linked to credentials, programs, courses, jobs, pathways"

Looking for scrappable, structured datasets that map occupations → workflows → skills/capabilities Like O*NET (US Department of Labor) www.onetonline.org ESCO (European Skills/Competences/Occupations taxonomy) esco.ec.europa.eu/en

Something I realized Every fancy-sounding job title is just an orchestration of workflows. Like in a job everyone relies on chunked workflows, repeatable micro decisions that transcend status or schooling. Same kind of shit repeated everyday with little bit of variation

If corporate life here weren't so toxic and prestige-credential driven in India, people wouldn't be risking everything for H1B.

Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs. “Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.” worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

Hippocampal GABAergic interneurons and memory www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Parvalbumin positive+ interneurons generate the gamma oscillations crucial for working memory

One extreme advantage of LLMs, you can ask unlimited follow up question for expanding context on specific parts of a question and response This means you can get an understanding of a concept from multiple perspectives and lenses, very quickly

The biggest advantage that a university provides, and especially a good university, I have realized is it compresses knowledge and skills It provides people a good scope and a timed window, time box window, for compression of a field's know-what, know-how, and know-why in a set, time-boxed way

NYU Stern Industry Margins Dataset, curated by Professor Aswath Damodaran, provides industry-level data on gross, net, and operating profit margins for U.S. companies pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/Ne...

An AI tutor system while offering the promise of personalization though can also turn out to be a dystopian bureaucratic alienating nightmare, that is just as if not more opaque than a typical college, where a student could be crushed with no human to turn to. What can be done to avoid that

What if there was hyperaudio instead of hypertext, a way to connect specific parts of videos and audios based on specific segments of what is said Where you had segments of an audio linked with related audio

I wonder if Silicon Valley has become more credentialist and elitist compared to the countercultural days of stewart brand's whole earth catalog because we have now have more Indian leadership in tech companies.

What do you think makes an education good, what would make someone be well educated I think it's the ability to change something about the world in some way If an education doesn't help you do that education is lifeless, inert & useless which is what most memorization written test based edu is

Artboards in Figma are static rectangles representing disconnected states. We draw dead rectangles and call it interaction. Real interfaces today are dynamic systems but artboards treat them as a slideshow

Bret Victor - Stop Drawing Dead Fish www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfyt... Victor refers "Drawing dead fish" to using a dynamic medium (the computer) to make static images and unchanging animation.

📝 Just posted the first in my series on "Philosophy for Designers," which is my attempt to read, learn and share about philosophy and design in the open. A quick primer on the school of philosophy called phenomenology, written for anyone who designs digital things. seanvoisen.com/blog/phenome...

Bret Victor has really figured out the best way to learn and teach via his communal computing project His lab dynamicland has been working on a way of doing everything that you can do with a computer, outside the screen, on a table, on the walls. dynamicland.org/2024/Intro/

Constructing Embodied Algebra by Sketching by Nazmus Saquib, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Li-yi Wei, Gloria Mark, Deb Roy dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445460

Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning by Edited by Sheila L. Macrine, Jennifer M.B. Fugate direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

The Search for True Numbers of Neurons and Glial Cells in the Human Brain: A Review of 150 Years of Cell Counting pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Cerebellum representing about 10% of brain volume contains 50–70 billion neurons while cortex making up 80–85% has 10–20 billion neurons 😮

Seamful XAI: Operationalizing Seamful Design in Explainable AI by Upol Ehsan, Q. Vera Liao, Samir Passi, Mark O. Riedl, Hal Daumé, III arxiv.org/pdf/2211.06753 They created a shared vocab for all teams members to identify AI blindspots without needing to know math behind ML algos

Anyone on the TL trying to make mechanistic interpretability accessible to designers and user researchers?

Anyone on the TL has explored the natural food flavour extract manufacturing space?

All of life is just finding relevance. Creating relevance for a specific set of people gets you a product or service. Creating & finding relevance with people gets you a team, an employer, or an employee.

Sacred learning = intimate, adaptive, dialogical, alive. Exams at scale = dead, rigid, uniform, anti-life. To learn is to feel alive through connection, and any system that strips that away is closer to death than life.

Scale destroys everything that's meant to be sacred in learning & teaching. I don't think you should educate thousands at a time via the same methods. Instead, teach groups of 5 connected in a federated network with 100 other groups of 5 Federated microschooling, microcollege

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...

One lesson that I've learnt, do not let people who haven't taken any risks in their careers to tell you what can and cannot be done

The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring by Osman (Ozzie) Osman www.holloway.com/g/technical-...

Junior to Senior: Career Advice for the Ambitious Programmer by David Glassanos www.holloway.com/b/junior-to-... "A practical guide to self-confidence, personal growth, teamwork, learning, communication, and delivering results—the soft skills that every programmer needs to succeed in their job"

Ask Me This Instead: Flip the Interview to Land Your Dream Job by Kendra Haberkorn www.holloway.com/b/ask-me-thi... Why should only hiring managers and recruiters decide your job destiny? No matter where you are in your career journey, it’s time you were in control.

Gentle introduction to sheaves on graphs by Jakob Hansen www.jakobhansen.org/publications... "Just knowing that two things are connected is not enough. We need to know something about the relationship implied by connection. Sheaves offer a mathematically rigorous for approaching problems like this"

Category Theory for the Sciences by David I. Spivak mitpress.mit.edu/978026202813... Written in an engaging and straightforward style, and assuming little background in mathematics, the book is rigorous but accessible to non-mathematicians.

I'm seeking to connect with these folks for — Designing Online Ecosystems for Competition-Free Self-Directed Open Education - Educators, Researchers: Interested in innovative, interdisciplinary, constructivist pedagogies 1/3

I want to find indian educators who hate ranks, marks and basically the entire notion hierarchy and competition in learning as much as I do. I do know educators like that outside India, would be nice to find some here as well

Also what would it take to cure this affliction - Where grades, marks, percentages are the sole goal of education as a means for people to claim superiority. The score and rank is the prize here not the knowledge or the means to reinvent, discover or create something with it

My critique on exams cc @stimpunks.org @humrespro.bsky.social

I hate this centralisation and monopoly of knowledge production by just a few. Educational institutions should not be associated with prestige or exclusivity. I have a burning rage for all these so called "prestigious" universities and colleges & the way it perpetuates what I call "rank-itis"

I hate that access to knowledge, as well as its acquisition, reproduction, and creation, are gatekept through competitive measures in large institutions such as exams and tests and the idea that it’s supposed to be done in fixed slabs and the kind of cultural malaise of ranking it has created

Just love the concept of posets (partial ordered sets), a math concept that seems to parallel everyday life Between two interconnected entities, not every component has to completely relate, that some aspects can remain incomparable. Not better, not worse, not rankable.

Any designer here on the TL trying to learn coding to ship their own app?

I want to build systems for those who failed, who got abandoned, who couldn't keep up with the rat race. Educational institutions for the most part and edtech modelled on them build systems for the already succeeding.

When I was a teenager I used to think Kurt Cobain was a genius. Now I’m 45, I’d laugh in the face of a 27 year old trying to give me advice.

How to not be bothered by obnoxious GenZ ageist posts 101 Ageist posts usually push: “If you’re not ____ by ____age and crushing it, you’re obsolete” When you see a post like that it’s less about you, more about them peacocking for attention & masking an anxiety

As a creative professional with prototyper mindset my hot take is: set yourself up to learn as much as you can as cheaply as you can to try out any ideas you’re curious about. Playing in the medium can pull you forward in ways you’d never know without trying

I basically wanted to know how the brain decide in what sequence to fire neurons for remembering and recalling stuff, like how does it encode "when" mastodon.social/@impactology... Turns out neurons fire in a rhythm, like an orchestra running on a metronome, one "beat" every 150 ms ~ theta rhythm

The central challenge of HCI is translating between the nature of computing and the nearly opposite nature of human cognition & behavior. (Relatedly: One false promise of “GenAI” is that it *fully* solves this problem, but it’s a mirage.)

I do. Because our nervous systems evolved in a physical environment, we’re in a sense “exapting” our cognitive capabilities into a simulated environment … so the rules of the simulated environment need to have invariant qualities etc that are compatible with our cognition. Wrote a book about it! :-)