Hi nerds -

I salute you from the isthmus of Panama, the last land to surge from underwater when the continent was forming - creating a whole new dating scene for North and South species.

I've decided to honor the beginning of a new month by doing a deeper dive into one of the ideas that received the most feedback during the last few weeks: the race towards the next education model. You can find the piece here if you want to have a picnic on the moon and dream with me a bit.

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3 intellectual goodies

1011001: Any machine that you use today is essentially a bunch of 0s and 1s.

0 means it's off, 1 means it's on. Through a combination of those two numbers, our devices understand languages, project images, and blast sound. Your computer's brilliance is turning that binary code into human readable interfaces in microseconds.

To me, this acts as a reminder that just because something looks perfect on the outside, doesn't mean there's not some crazy encoding going on on the inside. (Bonus snack: you can convert your name to binary code here 😎)

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Note-taking == time traveling: Taking notes throughout life is a hard habit to maintain because it demands attention, consistency, and a hyper-awareness of our experiences and the information we consume.

But the moment you store an idea somewhere, you're not merely saving the idea itself. You're immortalizing the human who lived through that thought by your adjective choice and the wording you gravitated towards. To look at old writings is to get a feel of where my head was at a given point in time; a window more descriptive of my brain than any video or image online.

Note-taking is time traveling because it's a door into our old self and their interests. And the better I know my old self, the more I empathize with my present self, the better I can strategize for my future self.

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The education race: Let the games begin! When a degree no longer guarantees a job and curriculums effectively get outdated within a few years, how can we provide personalized education at scale, that adapts to the fast-changing state of the world, and still entertains up-to-date, engaging insights to their students?

​Here's what I think will happen:​

• Students won't learn subjects, they'll learn skills. Most information lives in our pockets anyways, so it's a more sustainable, future-proof approach to spend that time learning to learn, unlearn, and relearn.

• High-schools and universities will intertwine and turn into modular, life-long experiences that continuously build your education portfolio as you take immersive courses, practice, build projects, work with peers, learn, unlearn and relearn. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

• Learning pods, micro-schools, and online learning have finally enabled student tailored experiences at mass.

• Classrooms as we know them are dead and will be replaced by elaborate online rooms, pods, bootcamps, and a cumulation of hands-on projects where students learn from each other; where their work is not only revised by one instructor only but rather by their peers, experts, and even strangers.

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2 brain farts

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”

~ John Cage

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"The more you achieve, the more you feel like a fraud."

~ Kristine Wong, Why you should embrace your impostor syndrome​

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1 funky audio

This week I've been geeking out about the best ways to organize my information capture system. 5-minute-long, clear, and actionable, this podcast has been super insightful when it comes to the best steps to building my second brain.

Thank you for reading.

As always, I'm pumped to hear what juicy thoughts you'll share with me after this crazier edition. 💡

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Until next time,

Jules 🤸🏻‍♂️