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.

#124: Unschooling, Innovating Education, Intuitive Learning and Startup Cities with Zach Caceres

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