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Technology evolves quickly. People don’t, because the human mind doesn’t operate at the speed of machines. We have two types of thinking: The conscious mind helps us learn, set goals, and follow plans. The subconscious mind holds deep habits, cultural beliefs, and ways of doing things that have worked in the past. When a new technology arrives, the conscious mind may quickly understand its potential. But the subconscious—shaped by decades of experience and social patterns—m

Welcome back to another podcast episode! This week we wanted to try something new and decided to do a cooking show podcast sort of thing. It was pretty impromptu and we mostly thought it would be fun to try something new to break out of any rigid conceptions we might've had in our own minds about the podcast format. Anyways, the topic is about the movie Frozen. We watched Frozen about a million times when we were little but it had been at least eight years since we had last w

As someone who has read many books, enjoys writing, and has published a book myself, I found it interesting that in the past year I have not really been reading many books. I think that to understand why this is the case, we need to take a big picture perspective on how we think about the purpose of books, and what this means about how we think about learning more broadly. Check out our latest podcast episode where Aila and I dive into our experience reading ... and not readi