If your market includes everyone, it includes no one. I knew I’d do better with a tighter market. Ideally, as Peter Thiel describes in Zero to One, a tiny niche I could monopolize. But even this was broad enough for me to lose focus. The real break-through for choosing actions to get traction came when I got down to the smallest unit possible.
Tag: schooling
Don’t Be Afraid to Be Interesting
Nearly every significant business connection I’ve made has been because of my deep love of ideas. The value of my radical, ideas-based network dwarfs that of my pure business/practical connections.
Government School is Child Abuse, Chapter: Too Many to Count
The evidence is growing that school hurts kids. Homework is another issue that is only an issue because people don’t want to let go of an institution that they have been led to believe is “necessary,” “helpful,” and “useful.” Just like past forms of slavery. Let it go already.
To Suppress Natural Curiosity–Or Not?
“My 5 year old son keeps asking to do more math, and I have to keep explaining to him that school is over, and it’s summer vacation now!” Sorry, but you’re doing home education wrong. Anytime anyone, of any age, expresses an interest in math, I’m happy to oblige.
Episode 072 – Paul’s Journey, and Spiritual Ideas (46m)
Episode 072 welcomes Paul Andrews to the podcast to discuss his journey toward the unknown. Topics covered include politics, homeschooling, God, religion, and spirituality.
Episode 071 – Aaron’s Journey, and Unique Ideas (44m)
Episode 071 welcomes Aaron White to the program to chat about his journey to voluntaryism, peaceful parenting, unschooling, and his experience with a YouTube channel.
Why Our Coercive System of Schooling Should Topple
I’ve been called a crazy optimist, a Pollyanna, a romantic idealist. How can I believe that our system of compulsory schooling is about to collapse? People point out that in many ways the schooling system is stronger now than ever. It occupies more of children’s time, gobbles up more public funds, employs more people, and is more firmly controlled by government – and at ever-higher levels of government – than has ever been true in the past. So why do I believe it’s going to collapse – slowly at first and then more rapidly – over the next ten years or so? Here are four reasons.
Episode 069 – Thomas’ Journey, Free Market Educators, Praxis (1h29m)
Episode 068 welcomes Thomas Bogle (and his son Cullen) to the podcast to talk about his journey toward voluntaryism, and his involvement with Free Market Educators and Praxis. Topics include teaching, homeschooling/unschooling, entrepreneurship, the Praxis program, internship, and more.
Kids Learn Naturally: Why Compulsory Schooling is Unneccessary and Even Harmful, A Case Study
Life is learning. Language has a definite purpose for us, and utility. In short, learning the language our mommy and daddy use to communicate has meaning. We need to get that milk! We need our blessed diaper changed! This language stuff gets shit done! Without meaning, “education” is a breathtakingly inane and pathetic waste of an individual’s time.
Supporting Government “Services”
If I am attacking the theft and coercion behind some things, don’t take it as an attack on you for using those things–unless you start being nasty in defense of the status quo and making it about some tangent that buzzes your bonnet.