Essays

Pandemic

  • The Software Paradox: Why Amplification Isn’t Transformation

    Better tools only amplify the system you already have. Transformation needs to be approached from first principles.

    Let’s hop in the time machine and rewind to March 2020. I was all set to pitch our groundbreaking product, "21st Century Skills in Schools," to a school district in Utah.. This was the culmination of everything I had written about previously. The 6 Core Tenets, the pursuit of fin...more

  • Why Real Change Can't Grow Inside Schools

    Real change cannot grow inside a system whose survival depends on the old model.

    Most people believe that big crises lead to big changes. We think that when a system is shocked, it will finally be forced to fix its long rooted problems. When the world stopped in early 2020, I was one of those believers. I thought the pandemic was the "great reset" for educati...more