Hello, you marvellous person,
It still baffles me that we live in a world with self-driving cars and rocket ships, yet we still haven’t figured out how to make a toaster that doesn’t incinerate your toast.
I recently sat down with Forbes and Christine on The Extraordinary Show to vent about this exact frustration, and how these everyday annoyances are precisely what drive us to build better things.
We ended up having a marvellous chat about why the world is so unnecessarily complicated, and a few other things I suspect you might agree with:
Traditional education is utter nonsense. Putting a teacher at the front of a room to talk to students on entirely different levels is statistically the second-worst way to learn anything. The only thing worse? Doing absolutely nothing
AI won’t make us stupid. Frankly, it’s a giant online machine holding humanity’s entire history of knowledge. The future belongs to those who stop worrying about having all the answers and start learning how to ask much better questions.
A fun challenge for you this week:
If you only read the same industry press as your colleagues, you’ll only ever have similar ideas to your colleagues.
So, I challenge you to do something different today.
Go to a talk you have zero interest in, watch a film you’d normally avoid, or read a random book. If it’s terrible, you can always leave. But I promise you, looking elsewhere is exactly where the best creative ideas are hiding.
You can watch the full episode (and even hear my dad’s life advice) by clicking on the YouTube link below. 👇👇
Stay curious and have a fabulous week,
Chris & the 42courses team x
