Today Nathan and I had a chat about work. It will be up in the coming days on YouTube, I only just got our second episode up, but one of the interesting points that Nathan mentioned was the definition of work. Well, we think there are multiple definitions for work, but after a bit of …

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Humans have one special ability that computers will never be able to do, and that is the ability to come up with ideas. Sure computers can come up with songs and news articles, but that’s all rehashing things that have come before. No, humans have the ability to come up with new ideas. As humans, …

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I remember when I was about 8 or 9 I had ridden quite far on my bike, at least the furtherest distance I had ever ridden. And of course, I got a puncture. For some reason, I can vividly remember walking all the way back home. I remember getting angry at my dad because he …

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In Japanese, when you ask someone to do something and they don’t want to do it, nine times out of ten they say ‘that sounds difficult’ instead of giving you a straight up no. When you’re used to it, it’s fine, although it does get annoying. Especially when I point out that difficult and impossible …

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Stories are an insanely important part of what it means to be human. It’s precisely because we have the ability to form stories that create a collective understanding between multiple people that we can move multiple people at once to take action. The next point though, is what we use those stories for. The story …

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A teacher’s job isn’t to teach. It’s to facilitate learning by creating the ultimate environment to do so. Compulsory education is a misnomer. Education can’t be forced, so it can’t be compulsory. A learner only learns when they want to learn, just like the saying you can lead a horse to water but you can’t …

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How many times have you said these words? You see someone doing something creative and you think to yourself, I could make that. A website. I could make that. A video. I could make that. A comic. I could make that. Before you say or even think these words, see if you really can make …

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