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John Dailey's avatar

This is great advice for all of us! Thanks, Chris.

Pete Howard's avatar

Learn how to learn...YES. Been saying for years that this is the PRIMARY THING that schools should be teaching. I love the rest of your list of priorities as well, Chris. Way to boil it all down to the essentials.

Chris DeMuth Jr's avatar

Thanks, Pete,

It can look different for different learners but in common with effective learners: actively wrestling, not passively watching. I love note cards but others love legal pads. Something tactile. Put into your own words. Re-teach. Prioritize the hard parts, the weak parts, and the holes in knowledge. The brain is just one more thing to train. It responds like the rest of the body. Time is running short on my getting anything across to the (decreasingly) little ones but this is on my short list.

Baird Brightman's avatar

This is very good: “We will all get replaced. But we can be the replacement.”

So is the rest.

Chris DeMuth Jr's avatar

Thanks, Baird!

SF Bay Area's avatar

Master the art and science of prompt engineering.

There is almost no more valuable life skill you can teach a teenager today.

A close second is an Austin Mathew’s or Connor Bedard snap shot.

Chris DeMuth Jr's avatar

Yes to both. Crucial. Might drive everything or at least a heck of a lot. Not having prompt engineering maybe a bigger headwind than not speaking English when arriving on Ellis Island. A problem that has to be fixed right away. Table stakes in the days ahead.