Nishantha On Modern Education, AI, And Creative Careers

<p>Nishantha has ADHD and Dyslexia. He’s figured out how to make the most of my cognitive advantages while minimizing the challenges of dyslexic processing.</p><p>We talked about the weapons of mass instruction that make it challenging for many kids to succeed. </p><p>But we also talked about a lot of the areas that we are hopeful for schools and work to become more and more creative.</p><h2>Future Proofing Education</h2><p>We talked about what we think school will look like in the future?</p><p>Naturally there will be a transition away from school and work that is based on the needs and desires of the Industrial Revolution.</p><p>A lot of this Impact will come from the changes AI will make to education.</p><p>What’s awesome is teachers will be afforded to be more creative if we build schools with more common sense. </p><p>As we allow AI to help take away some of the repetitive, cognitive labor, teachers will become more and more like artists.</p><p>Once we can automate the learning of basic skills, like math, writing, history and geography, the only left is to teach with a very creative approach.</p><p>We also discussed whether we think kids will be going to post secondary school in 10, 15 years? </p><h2>Creator Economy Careers</h2><p>We talked about the need to scale the creator economy. </p><p>Society can get to a place where everyone works because they want to, in an area they are highly interested in. Almost like everyone could be retired in terms of comfortably meeting their basic needs.</p><p>We’re already headed in this direction. </p><p>The economy is building toward a bunch of small businesses. Entrepreneurship, and the one person business model will continue to take over to the point where we have a bunch of individual monopolies. </p><h2>Memorable Quotes</h2><p><i>“All human beings are teachers. That’s what we are.”</i></p><p><i>“Most work places and schools are created by neurotypical people for neurotypical people. At best we make accommodations and adjustments from these typical workflows. But what