Thread by @then_there_was

I think it's because you can plan for general things. You can create a curriculum and observable metrics.

And that allows you to make a business.

Every individual is different enough from each other that they'll probably have different interests.

You can't make a business around something as nebulous as that because it isn't clear when your knowledge starts and stop.

You need discrete packets of knowledge that can be summed up in a class syllabus.

But there's a trade-off. In exchange for measurable short-term outcomes, you lose flexibility.

Classes in a syllabus don't easily change their information based on feedback from reality. Or if they do, they do it on much longer time-scales, say months or years.

It's how you end up learning about things that aren't as useful as if you had just bought a book on Amazon.

When you go to college, you end up learning how to solve problems you don't even have

That's not incredibly useful.

But it's not supposed to be useful—college is partly an insurance policy against a future you're unsure of.

A true education would be one where an individual solves local problems and see where it leads them.

Over time, as they continue learning, a tree of knowledge should organically emerge that's unlike anybody else's on the planet.

It'll be a set of skills and talents that uniquely address the problems you face.

But you gotta solve from the ground-up, from today.

If you do so correctly, you'll find yourself scaling the problems to higher and higher difficulties until eventually, you're solving problems no one else on the planet can do in equal measure.
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