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Wrote just a tad bit more about it here.

Discussion: The AI Era Liberal Arts open.substack.com/pub/stkbaile...
Discussion: The AI Era Liberal Arts
What do students need to know?
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January 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The big change is moving from a worldview that worships pure forms and into one that appreciates built forms. It still revolves around "number", but we need to operate in context. Information is "number in noise", technology is "number in contraption", and aesthetics is "number in form".
January 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I’d keep the Trivium. Grammar, logic, and rhetoric are perennial subjects when interpreted broadly. They teach how to gather information, order it, and argue with it.

There's some play in the Quadrivium, though. I'd keep arithmetic, but bring on:

- Information
- Technology
- Aesthetics
January 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM

Interesting thread on Twitter proposes:

- Logic
- Statistics
- Rhetoric
- Research
- Agency
- Investment
- Rhetoric

It's a bit hustle-bro for my tastes, but the focus on thriving in uncertainty resonates. Great jumping-off point for discussion.

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January 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#1 - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

This is history, but it reads like a thriller. The challenges get greater with each step of the journey. The stakes get higher. At the end, I gave Shackleton and his team a standing ovation. (I mean this literally.)

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleto…
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January 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#2 - The Farthest Shore

Just loved the wisdom.

"For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted."

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The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle. Darkn…
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January 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#3 - The Acts of King Arthur

What stands out are the never-ending episodes of knight antagonizing knight. They look for any opportunity: they camp out on hills, they provoke, they quest. We do this now, too--but we murder with words those we used to with spears.

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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts…
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January 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#4 - Bea Wolf

Bea Wolf is the crown jewel of dad jokes. An entire published book, complete with splendid illustrations, premised on trolling—ahem, reimagining—the epic poem Beowulf. It works flawlessly. (Just like dad jokes.)

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Bea Wolf
A modern middle-grade graphic novel retelling of Beowul…
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January 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#5 -- Death's End

Death’s End is where things get weird. It’s always interesting and sometimes delightful. Even when it doesn’t work (viz. Australia), it moves on quickly enough. And when it does work, it’s original, thought-provoking, and well worth the read.

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Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers g…
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January 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Approx. a two car garage incl. roof. Thinking monster truck or construction equipment. Takes up most of road, would need a ladder to climb aboard, but shorter than tower size.
January 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Hyperion Cantos to Animorphs is a reading transition that fully and surprisingly checks out to my brain
December 2, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Cool, happy to share notes, will DM. High level, I see branch deployments as a killer feature, although CI/CD deployment times can creep up over time and reduce value. Asset framework is mostly good, but you need guidance for developers around how to use it, otherwise it degrades in coherence
December 2, 2024 at 9:25 PM
What do you want to know?
December 2, 2024 at 6:44 PM