Matteo Perper

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In the absence of an accountability buddy, keep your word to yourself by committing to daily or weekly reviews of your progress.
Deep Work: The Complete Guide (Including a Step-by-Step Checklist)
explained by differences in exposure to people with high SES in groups such as schools and religious organizations.
Social capital II: determinants of economic connectedness | Nature
The other half is explained by friending bias—the tendency for people with low SES to befriend people with high SES at lower rates even conditional on exposure. Friending bias is shaped by the structure of the groups in which people interact. For example, friending bias is higher in larger and more diverse groups and lower in religious organizations than in schools and workplaces
Social capital II: determinants of economic connectedness | Nature
the radically enlightened care only about the truth, and have no attachment to institution preservation.
Psychiatry’s Failure Crisis: Are You Moderately or Radically Enlightened? - Mad In America
“disease like any other” anti-stigma campaign which actually increases stigma;
Psychiatry’s Failure Crisis: Are You Moderately or Radically Enlightened? - Mad In America
worsening treatment outcomes despite increased treatment;
Psychiatry’s Failure Crisis: Are You Moderately or Radically Enlightened? - Mad In America
Of course the Gini coefficient is increasing. With more people starting more valuable companies, how could it not be?
How People Get Rich Now
freedom of expression to continue to increase. Instead it has decreased.
Heresy
whose accomplishments are more logistical than mathematical.
Features: Enjoying Student Life - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
They are, at best, a measure of how approximately your understanding of the material matches a professor’s
The Unconventional Scholar: Ignore Your GPA - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
Take a reasonable course load. Don’t have too many activities. Sign-up for classes that interest you, give them the attention they deserve,
Q & A: Beware of “Ducks” at Stanford, Forget About Your Senior Year G.P.A., and Become Interesting to College Admissions Officers - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
be careful that you’re not taking on an overly punishing course load or too many activities just because it seems to be “standard” for your Stanford chums
Q & A: Beware of “Ducks” at Stanford, Forget About Your Senior Year G.P.A., and Become Interesting to College Admissions Officers - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
What it meant to actually get an education, and why you might want one – how it could help you acquire a self, or develop an independent mind, or find your way in the world – all this was off the table.”
Against school - New Statesman
status, wealth, getting to the top
Against school - New Statesman
school is about gaining credentials, not learning life skills
Against school - New Statesman
all our activities tend to take the shape of client relationships to other specialised institutions.”
Against school - New Statesman
“process inevitably produces something of value and, therefore, production necessarily produces demand. School teaches us that instruction produces learning. The existence of schools produces the demand for schooling
Against school - New Statesman
practical alternative to the status quo, one that replaces compulsory schooling – a consumption-driven, highly monetised and increasingly corporate business – with voluntary, self- and peer-guided learning
Against school - New Statesman
to the demands made upon them by others
Against school - New Statesman
Tools for Conviviality
Against school - New Statesman
displaced active learning throughout – not only the school system per se, but also society as a whole.
Against school - New Statesman
the passive consumption of packaged curricula on a mostly commercial, qualifications-driven basis
Against school - New Statesman
the role of institutional schooling in perpetuating class and racial divisions.
Against school - New Statesman
development is both good and inevitable
Against school - New Statesman
polemics on education, gender, the role of the clergy in society and the ways in which poverty is exacerbated by international development – which was still considered a positive force by many at that time.
Against school - New Statesman
what Tom was thinking when he leant me Deschooling Society, but he didn’t seem surprised when, a fortnight later, I quit the course and headed off to Cambridge where I eventually found work as a college gardener.
Against school - New Statesman
the “learning networks” that he proposed as a remedy for institutional failure.
Against school - New Statesman
The historic reforms of the New Deal in the 1930s and the Great Society in the 1960s depended on a peculiar combination of political forces.
Why Joe Biden failed - New Statesman
The aim of this political project would be to replace the unconstrained authority of the market with democratic accountability, held together by the lynchpin of organized labor.
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
In a world defined by political crises and climate breakdown, perhaps the best way to defend the values Fukuyama cares about would be through an imaginative political order.
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
Its mirror image, an effectively democratic noncapitalist state, has yet to explicitly emerge.
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
capitalism can succeed without an accompanying democratic appendage.
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
look at the actual state of modernity in its specificity
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
specifically an American one
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
economic inequality, neoliberalism, and, to an extent, social liberalism.
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
Within a democratic system, liberal freedoms actually exist in spite of capitalism, not because of it. Outside of America, which has a historically underdeveloped left, liberal traditions were won by social democrats and socialists, for whom rights to organize and speak were essential.
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
onception of the common good beyond identity politics
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
growing reluctance to posit substantive human ends that have priority over other ends; rather, it is the act of choice itself that has the highest priority.”
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
He goes on to argue that collective conceptions of the common good have been replaced by an overemphasis on personal autonomy, self-actualization, and choice
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
In reality, liberalism, much like conservatism, is simply a set of political moves and cultural associations determined by historical, sociological, and political positioning among factions in particular systems.
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
we rarely actually mention those who would have recognized the term — mostly individuals who offered a specific set of short-lived free-trade policies connected to a critique of aristocratic landed interests and mercantilism in early nineteenth-century Europe.
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
These theorists did not understand themselves as liberals, being far more concerned with classical political forms and the constitutional squabbles of their day.
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
“What is rational is actual; and what is actual is rational.”
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
The German philosopher famously insisted that the specific form that society took should not be understood as an aberration or deviation from an ideal; ideals that could not be actualized were instead untimely.
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
Indeed, the threats to liberal democracy Fukuyama finds in neoliberalism (massive inequality, consumerism, lack of state capacity)
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
“Would people be willing to sacrifice a bit of consumer welfare in order to maintain the dignity of labor and livelihoods at home?”
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
“The individualistic premise on which liberal theory is based is therefore not wrong, but rather incomplete.”
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
the superior efficiency of markets evolved into something of a religion, in which state intervention was opposed as a matter of principle.”
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
The failing of liberalism since the start of the neoliberal era, he argues, is that it failed to recognize the central role the state must play in managing this diversity.
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism
“Classical liberalism is a big tent that encompasses a range of political views that nonetheless agree on the foundational importance of equal individual rights, law, and freedom.”
Francis Fukuyama Is Right: Socialism Is the Only Alternative to Liberalism