#124: Unschooling, Innovating Education, Intuitive Learning and Startup Cities with Zach Caceres

Chiwi Journal

My guest today is Zach Caceres. He is an experienced software engineer and focuses on modern web technologies. He is interested in education and ##StartupCities and initiated a couple of cool projects in the relevant areas.

In today's episode, we discussed:

• Zach's unschooling experiences at a young age and his way of learning.
• Why choose to go back to university later on?
• Hilarious stories on the arbitrary bureaucracy of our modern education
• What's the essence of education?
• Case study of innovating education from within Guatemala's top university
• Sneak peek of The Intuitive Programmer project, learning how to learn
• What's community technology? What's Startup City?
• Stories on informal entrepreneurs and almost dead experience in Africa and South America.
• How does technology power up the city building and enhance people's living conditions?
• Brief introduction of Benjamin Blooms's two sigma problems
• What's 'The Great Fact' raised by Deirdre McCloskey
• What get you most excited about the future?

Books and links mentioned in this episode:

1. Zach's super cool website
2. Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
3. Innovating Education from Within Guatemala's Top University
4. Professor Barbara Oakley
5. Polymath Michael Polanyi
6. The Intuitive Programmer: Learning How to Learn Programming
7. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
8. Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley | TEDxOaklandUniversity
9. Focused vs. diffuse thinking: which is better for learning?
10. Pathological Altruism
11. The Start Of Startup Cities
12. Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US!
13. CityDAO: Blockchain Cities IRL
14. Informal Entrepreneurship
15. Stealth of Nations by Robert Neuwirth
16. City of God movie
17. Amazing video shows 10-story high-rise built in a day
18. Maybe the Coronavirus Was Lower-Hanging Fruit
19. Benjamin Blooms's two sigma problems
20. Khan Academy
21. Duolingo
22. Ad Astra Academy
23. The Great Fact- the humongous increase in humans' standard of living that began about 200 years ago.