Que un tipo tan joven como @santigigliotti escriba cada poco tiempo joyas como esta sobre temas tan delicados y trascendentales hace que que pensemos que todavía hay esperanza . No dejen de leerlo.
At Oxford, we made our students write an essay a week.
Essays are the backbone of the tutorial system: lectures are optional, tutorials are not. That’s because essays teach you how to use ideas, not just repeat them.
Readings, discussions, and lectures are good for explanation and memorisation — they make you fluent in the ideas of others. The essay is where you train to generate your own.
I’m putting together a series of guides on how to write better essays — the same lessons I taught when I was an Oxford tutor.
Coming soon for my paid subscribers on Substack (link in bio).
Las personas que caminan rápido tienen un IQ promedio 16 puntos más alto que el de las que caminan lento, sus rostros parecen más jóvenes y sus cerebros tienden a ser más grandes.
Elon Musk just admitted the most expensive mistake of his career.
It quietly dismantles the entire credentialing mythology.
Musk runs rockets. Neural implants. Autonomous fleets. Humanoid robots. The most complex engineering operation on earth.
You would assume he selects above all for one thing. Raw intellect.
Elon Musk: “I’ve made the mistake of thinking that sometimes it’s just about the brain. I think it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart.”
He didn’t learn this from a textbook.
He learned it by hiring the sharpest minds on the planet.
And watching the ones without character build things that were technically stunning and structurally corrosive.
The establishment sold the opposite story for a hundred years.
Get the degree. Get the credential. Get the paper.
That paper was supposed to prove you were exceptional.
It doesn’t.
A degree is proof of compliance.
It proves you showed up. Met deadlines. Followed a rubric.
Sat inside an institution for four years. Never once challenged the structure that held it together.
It does not prove you will speak when the room expects silence.
It does not prove you care about the thing you are building more than the title you hold while building it.
It does not prove you have a spine.
Raw intelligence without character is not an advantage.
It is a precision instrument aimed at your own foundation.
Now extend the lesson.
Intelligence itself is being demonetized.
An algorithm is about to solve in seconds what takes a PhD an entire career.
When cognitive power becomes unlimited and too cheap to meter, the premium on being smart collapses to zero.
The establishment spent a century grading you on the exact skill we just taught silicon to do better, faster, and for free.
But a machine cannot feel conviction.
A model cannot hold a moral line.
A server farm cannot refuse to cut a corner out of duty to another human being.
When intelligence becomes infinite, character becomes the only scarce resource left.
Integrity is not a soft skill anymore.
It is the last advantage that cannot be automated.
We spent a generation outsourcing our worth to our intelligence.
Intelligence is about to become the cheapest thing on earth.
Character will become the most expensive.
The mind was never the measure of a person.
The heart always was.
Basit ve güzel bir anlatımla " tüm çokgenlerin dış açılarının toplamının neden 360 derce olduğunun ispatı. Hiç bir çocuk bu şekilde anlatıldığında bunu unutmaz.
La escuela no tiene que ser siempre “divertida” para que haya aprendizaje. New York Times: el objetivo no es eliminar todo esfuerzo, sino lograr que los alumnos se involucren de verdad. Menos pantallas, menos gamificación y más lectura, escritura a mano y grandes ideas. https://t.co/ar0gPMtXkh
Hemos desterrado el silencio de las aulas. Parece que si una clase está callada y concentrada, el docente es un autoritario o el alumnado está aburrido. Hemos comprado la idea de que el aprendizaje tiene que ser un ruido constante. Y esto es un error garrafal. 🧵va...
Jordan Peterson just said the one thing no university on Earth wants you to hear.
Peterson: “If you can think, and speak, and write, you are absolutely deadly. Nothing can get in your way.”
Twelve years of school. Four years of university. Not one teacher ever pulled you aside and said the thing that matters.
You were taught that writing is how you prove you followed the rules. Hit the word count. Match the rubric. Cite in APA. Pass the class.
Peterson: “No one ever tells students why they should write something.”
Because the real answer would dismantle the entire arrangement.
Writing is not a subject. It is the physical shape of a thought.
The words you can assemble are the only thoughts you get to think. Everything outside your vocabulary is a feeling you cannot name and a future you cannot plan.
Every empire in history knew this. Priests guarded the alphabet. Kings outlawed the printing press. Slave owners made reading a crime punishable by death.
They were not protecting paper. They were protecting obedience.
The modern version is gentler. They put the weapon in your hands at age five and called it homework. Graded your grammar and ignored your mind. Spent two decades convincing you the most dangerous tool a human can hold was just another assignment.
Peterson: “It’s the most powerful weapon you can possibly provide someone with.”
A person who can articulate their own reality cannot be sold a borrowed one. That is the version of you the system cannot afford to create.
You graduate able to write emails. Not your own life.
Most people will spend their entire existence renting their thoughts from the few who learned what a sentence actually does.
He said this from inside a University of Toronto lecture hall. Tenured professor. Twenty years. Nominated five consecutive years as one of Ontario’s best lecturers. Students called his courses life changing. The institution made him persona non grata and he walked away.
The one professor who actually told you what the weapon does got pushed out for using it himself.
That tells you everything about who the system was designed to protect. Not the students. Not the thinkers. The structure.
Twenty years of education and the most important thing you were ever told came from a man the university couldn’t get rid of fast enough.
The moment you force a true sentence out of yourself, unassigned and ungraded, you stop being written. You start being dangerous.
"La lectura como ejercicio de voluntad: un desafío que fortalece el espíritu y eleva el pensamiento. No se trata solo de leer, sino de conquistar el texto, de enfrentarnos a sus ideas para que nos transformen. Leer es resistir la facilidad y buscar la profundidad" @Ismaellg90
Students remember more when they write it down on paper. Not type it. Not screenshot it. Write it!
The act of writing slows students down, adds tactile feedback, and helps lock it into memory.