Two guys are flying along the golf course, trying to get in a quick eighteen holes, but they run into two terrible lady golfers on the 13th hole, who are playing painfully slow!
The first guy says, “Why don’t you go over and ask if we can play through?”
The second guy walks ahead, and gets about 50yds from the terrible twosome, before quickly turning and coming back.
The first guy says, “What’s wrong?”
The second guy says, “You’re not gonna believe this, but the woman in the pink is my wife, and the one in yellow is my mistress.”
The first guy says, “Wow, that’s not good, let me give it a try.”
So, the first guy gets about halfway there, stops in his tracks, turns and comes back, too.
The second guy says, “What’s wrong?”
The first guy says, “It’s a small world!”
I had a couple of hours to kill the other afternoon, so I headed over to my local golf course to play a quick nine.
An older gentleman walked up and asked if he could join me since we were both playing solo.
I figured he might slow things down a bit, but I said sure.
Turns out, he was a great partner.
He wasn’t fast, but he kept a steady pace and never held me up.
Plus, he’d been playing that course for decades and had a helpful tip for just about every hole.
When we got to the ninth, I ran into trouble.
My tee shot sliced off to the side and landed near the edge of the course.
Between me and the green stood a towering oak tree, just a few yards ahead.
I stood there staring at it, trying to figure out my next move.
The old-timer nodded and said, “You know, I was in that exact spot about thirty years ago.
I just hit it right over the top of that tree and landed on the green.”
“Seriously?” I asked. “Seriously,” he said with a confident grin.
So I grabbed my iron, took a big swing, and sent the ball straight up.
It smacked the tree halfway up and dropped right back down—four feet behind me.
He chuckled and said, “Well now… thirty years ago, that tree was only about three feet tall.”
On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said
You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.
Elon Musk: At this point, education is mostly a social experience. You don’t actually need school to learn anymore. With AI, you can learn just as much—or more—on your phone at home. School is becoming less about knowledge and more about being around people your own age.
People should go to school today mainly for the social side of it. The learning itself? AI can already do that better. Conventional schooling could be vastly improved, and individualized AI teachers will outperform the one-size-fits-all classroom.
Education doesn’t need to happen in a building anymore. You could learn everything at home on your phone. Kids go to school to hang out, build social skills, and experience a coming-of-age—not because it’s the most effective way to learn.
School today functions as a social filter, not a learning engine. AI handles the learning better. Humans still go to school for friendships, relationships, leadership, confidence, and real-world social development.
In Budapest, there is a fountain that looks like an open book. At regular intervals, a sheet of water curves to one side to give the illusion of a page being turned