I Use the Public as My Classroom

Jan 23, 2020, 12:11 PM

I don’t have a classroom so I use the public as my classroom. It was an experiment. it’s been ridiculously rewarding, even if the number of overconfident ignorant young men is … tedious.

We have a course going at the Institute where people singn up and get the content as I release it. It’s a drip process but it works.

I use a particularly interesting teaching method (king of the hill) more suitable for men so I attract a certain audience.

And so far the project is largely complete. It’s a matter of editing it down (simplification).

Some people (example: Taleb) publish a book every few years, and finally get to their philosophical project. Some people publish a book every ten years. I’m sort of on the ten year plan. And if you look through history (kant etc) it takes about ten years. Duchsene took ten years. It takes time. The first book is done but I don’t want to release it first. It’s too targeted to libertarians. The second book is at 80%+. The constitution is somewhere in the 50% range. It’s getting there.

I don’t see the point in lecturing until something this complicated can be published. Although we will undoubtably start this year.

And I’m far better in person when teaching real time than I am on video – it’s just my nature to interact with the class. So I assume that the videos of those presentations will be more effective than the online content, the courses so far, or the book.