You Are Not a Function - by Brendan McCord
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Why the Race to Stay Useful is a Trap
The Triumph of Love and Beauty by Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (1630) In the autumn of 1809, Prussia was a country that no longer knew what it was for. Three years earlier, Napoleon had destroyed its army in an afternoon and walked into Berlin without resistance. The king fled. Half the territory was gone, the treasury empty. French soldiers were still garrisoned in the capital. As Prussia began rebuilding from the wreckage, most people assumed it needed more officers, administrators, and engineers. People who could do things. The task of designing the new system of education fell to a…
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