Created: 2023-02-02 10:58
Goals aren’t required to further once knowledge base. We can work/study/learn without goals, until those goals become self evident, Work is the goal. How can you set goals if you don’t know what’s out there and what’s possible?
From Steve Krouse’s interview with Alan Kay:
Alan also said at lunch that one problem young people make is “having goals.” It’s too early to have goals that “consume one’s horizons,” because young people don’t even know what they don’t know. I think this kind of epistemic modesty is a great idea. I can probably benefit from shifting the focus from my overly-specific goals to “more meta” goals, such as becoming “educated” in a broader sense than I previously thought was possible. The more perspectives I can acquire, the better I’ll be at not fooling myself, and the more I’ll be able to appreciate the richness of the world. Lunch with Alan Kay: how to become educated enough to invent the future
This idea of being more educated is at odds with the current systems of formal education, which aim to produce The new illiteracy
Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest, the more work you put into the further away you’d be able to go.