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“Ambitious” is a word that I’ve been hearing a lot lately. It’s often used descriptively when talking about people, but also prescriptively when talking about desirable characteristics in a friend/partner. I think both of these are misguided, and that “ambitious” … Work produces artifacts — documents, code, spreadsheets — and we often don’t consider it “work” unless it produces these. These artifacts implicitly become an internal measure of work — the more artifacts you produce, the more work you’ve done. It’s easy to get caught … This is the (lightly edited) written transcript of a talk I gave a few weeks ago at Experience Haus’ conference, The Future of Learning. I hope to condense it down into a more digestible essay soon. The talk is about constructionism, a learning theory that’s been around since the … In school, I often wasn’t sure when I was allowed to think. In many subjects, we learned simplified versions of things. This was necessary, I’m sure, but it made it hard to meaning