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Raising a family that can matter. I write about what that takes and why — because I want you to build your own.
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Four questions about teaching kids with AI (opens the original)
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Passing on the love of a good challenge (opens the original)
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I believe that one of my skills is that I’m good at thriving in a challenge. For a long time, I didn’t even think it was a skill; I assumed everyone was that way. I’ve come to realize that isn’t true. Just the other day, watching me work through a one handed shield throw, my coach said “I wish everyone got as much out of these challenges as you did.” It’s not just exercise challenges though. I do my best writing when I’m working on a piece beyond what I know I can do. I’m at my best as a dad whe
Expertise Research was supposed to transform education; what went wrong? (opens the original)
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Studying experts was supposed to teach us how all students could be more successful. That was the promise Benjamin Bloom made in his 1985 book Talent Development in Young People. In the 40 years since, educational outcomes have improved very little. In many parents’ minds, outcomes have gotten worse. The promise that “virtually all people have enormous potential” and that we would redesign education to help them achieve it has not played out. Why is that?Starting in the 1980s, expertise research
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