Unlocking the capacity of human minds with Duncan Anderson, co-founder of Edrolo
Unlocking the capacity of human minds with Duncan Anderson, co-founder of Edrolo ā
Why unlocking the capacity of students could fundamentally change humanity ā
The cycle of learning: thinking, building, observing & synthesising ā
How Edrolo are building ācontent technologyā ā
Becoming āartist-scientistsā and creating repeatable beauty ā
How to help kids discover a ālove of learningāĀ Edroloās mission is to improve education and the future lives of learners.Ā Find Edrolo's website here: https://edrolo.com.au/ Roughly one third of people in the developed world reach the point of being able to teach themselves new things. Duncan believes that with Edrolo, it will be possible to increase that number to 80 or 90%, which would fundamentally change humanity. Episode Highlights from Duncan: āTo me, the next great problem to solve is unlocking the capacity of human minds. And to me, we donāt need any more time, or money, or new curriculums to do it. Iām not saying those things wouldnāt help. But I donāt think they are precluding us from getting there.ā āThere are still some jobs that are very physical, but they are slowly going away. If your job is knowledge work, which is the increasing percentage of jobs, and if your job is non-repetitive, the machines are replacing all the repetitive ones... then Iām going to argue that the most important skill is thinking.ā āIf youāre not helping the world be better, people arenāt on board. Your goal has to be to make the world better, and you have to be making progress towards it. Then they have to see how theyāre able to contribute to that. Those are the foundational elements. Upon that foundation, you can build a positive sum ecosystem where people like working etc, but if you donāt have those foundational elements, I donāt think anything else really matters.ā āIn the developed world roughly one third of people get to the point where they can teach themselves new things. I think one definition of what weāre trying to do is get as many people to this point as possible⦠I would hope that we could take this from roughly a third, to 80 or 90% by the end of year 10, and if thatās the case, we have fundamentally changed all of humanity.ā āA unit of thinking, a unit of building products, a unit of observing, a unit of synthesising, and round and round. Thatās what I would call a cycle of learning. You need to get externally validated units of learning, and that can only happen by going outside.ā āTo me, thereās often an overly simplistic idea of what culture (in a company) should be, and it often comes out as monoculture⦠to me, the only constant is change, and youāre trying to set up the entire business to be able to shift, and for people to be part of what that is, and for different types of cultures to sit in different places. So, effectively a mess, but a beautiful mess, hopefully.ā