A Worldview Built from Contrarians (U22 Talk)

(draft) In October 2022, I gave a keynote talk in Bucharest, Romania, at Unfinished 2022 (U22). You can watch the whole talk here, and see it in context in my Brain here.

This talk is essentially the backstory of how I came up with the ideas that I expressed virtually at U20 in Trust Is the (Only) Way Forward.

Nuggetizing the talk yields:

The Itch The Contrarians Harrison Owen Hans Monderman Eleanor Ostrom John Taylor Gatto Admiral Farragut The Hidden Curriculum of School Christopher Alexander Pattern Languages Contrarian inspirations Contrarians vs kooks? Defenseless vs undefended Awareness milestones Conclusions A policy platform How should we start? How did everything break? Why is solving things difficult?

— Jerry Michalski

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This article is cross-posted on Substack here, Medium here and LinkedIn here. It's also here in my Brain.

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