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The main problem with predicting the future is that there are too many variables, and too many unknown and unknowable things. I imagine it must be easier to turn the world into a math equation if you have some control over what variables go into the calculation at the beginning.
This white board is like a powerpoint display. He’s not writing all this out every time he teaches this course. He just rolls the pen over the pre-written lines and reveals them. He can also add to it as he goes, but no one in this room is about making more work for themselves. Except maybe Maida.
That’s such a good point about the variables – it really does feel like we’re just guessing when trying to forecast anything beyond a short time frame.
Just caught up! Absolutely amazing work. I am so invested!
Thanks!
oh man, this reminds me of when I was a kid, and I watched my mom read all her law school textbooks before the semester started and she talked about how that’s the expectation in law school, that they give you the textbook and you are expected to show up, day one, having read it cover to cover. (that one scene in Legally Blonde is very real)
so of course I did that level of prep through community college and university, but I couldn’t convince any of my classmates to do the same.
That… feels almost like an intentional method of keeping out the poors (ie anyone who doesn’t get told this key piece of information before they show up to class). I don’t like it!