HeyJaredMusings on Mastery
My personal Substack views on Mastery for both individuals and social systems.
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What I’ll Tell Freshmen About Learning in the Age of AI (opens the original)
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As I prepare for a talk to mostly freshmen at Texas Lutheran University, I’ve begun to reflect on what I might tell them. A practice run for our own graduate program didn’t work. The reason was staring me in the face, and I hadn’t noticed. I’m writing this as a record of my thinking going in. I’ll report back on what I myself learned after the event has concluded.It has been more than forty years since I was a freshman. When I went to college, we had three electric devices in our dorm room, not
I am a child of a professor. I still felt a class ceiling. (opens the original)
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Last year Harvard’s Steven Pinker came to the University of Houston to give a talk. He presented his most recent book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. I was the person chosen to be in conversation with him, a trend now in presentations on books. At some point in the evening, I prefaced my question by noting that I lived in a neighborhood south of Houston. Pinker noted that I lived in SoHo. I smiled at the joke but had no idea what he was talking about.<a class="image-link image2 is-view
Late Bloomers Create Early Prodigies (opens the original)
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A couple of weeks ago, my son Nikolas invited my wife and me to the Picasso exhibit from the Berggruen collection. I’m not a huge fan of museums, but it was a very hot Sunday afternoon in Houston, and my approach has always been to find the one piece that I love and spend 15 minutes in front of it. I expected this to be the same.I walked in and the first thing I saw was Picasso and a quote from him about Cézanne being the father of them all.I had always thought the story of Cézanne and Picasso w
The Labyrinth and the Line (opens the original)
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When I was fourteen I went to spend a year in Mexico, living with my aunt and her family. The students there had already done three years of physics, three years of chemistry, three years of biology. They were studying trigonometry. I had done none of it.The first chemistry test I took, I got a 20. I celebrated. The person sitting next to me told me that 20 was the lowest score you could get.It was a bunch of stuff I had never heard of. Electrons, protons, neutrons. But the year went on and we r
The way of the champion is the lonely way (opens the original)
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This afternoon Ben Shelton will face off against Alexander Zverev for the US Open title. Tennis has gone on for the past five years. I haven’t. I wrote this a few years ago but wasn’t sure if I should publish it. So, here it is. My official goodbye to my Federer hangover as a tennis spectator.I don’t know why but I am predicting Shelton will break the “streak” and be the first American man to raise a US Open (and any major tournament) trophy in 23 years. Katalin Karikó’s path to winning the <a h
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