I'm linking to this note because it's deep, well expressed, or even particularly accessible (the Substack email subscription prompts are annoying and probably a precursor to eventual monetization) but because the point being made isn't important: the call to 'scale up' education technology and practices is wrong because scaling is non-linear. Sam Chaltain offers instead an alternative approach to scaling, which is essentially to "go big by getting small (again)." Nature scales by replicating small basic things that combine and recombine in wide-ranging and diverse ways. I don't think his examples are very convincing or even useful (his link to education reimagined smacks of pure product placement) but the concept is sound.
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