#124: Unschooling, Innovating Education, Intuitive Learning and Startup Cities with Zach Caceres
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My guest today is Zach Caceres). He is an experienced software engineer and focuses on modern web technologies. He is interested in education and ##StartupCities and initiated a couple of cool projects in the relevant areas.

In today's episode, we discussed:

• Zach's unschooling experiences at a young age and his way of learning.

• Why choose to go back to university later on?

• Hilarious stories on the arbitrary bureaucracy of our modern education

• What's the essence of education?

• Case study of innovating education from within Guatemala's top university

• Sneak peek of The Intuitive Programmer project, learning how to learn

• What's community technology? What's Startup City?

• Stories on informal entrepreneurs and almost dead experience in Africa and South America.

• How does technology power up the city building and enhance people's living conditions?

• Brief introduction of Benjamin Blooms's two sigma problems

• What's 'The Great Fact' raised by Deirdre McCloskey

• What get you most excited about the future?

Books and links mentioned in this episode:

• Zach)'s super cool website)

• Mindshift): Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential

• Innovating Education from Within Guatemala's Top University)

• Professor Barbara Oakley)

• Polymath Michael Polanyi)

• The Intuitive Programmer: Learning How to Learn Programming)

• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs))

• Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley | TEDxOaklandUniversity)

• Focused vs. diffuse thinking: which is better for learning?)

• Pathological Altruism)

• The Start Of Startup Cities)

• Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US!)

• CityDAO): Blockchain Cities IRL

• Informal Entrepreneurship)

• Stealth of Nations by Robert Neuwirth)

• City of God movie)

• Amazing video shows 10-story high-rise built in a day)

• Maybe the Coronavirus Was Lower-Hanging Fruit)

• Benjamin Blooms's two sigma problems)

• Khan Academy)

• Duolingo)

• Ad Astra Academy)

• The Great Fact-) the humongous increase in humans' standard of living that began about 200 years ago.