Podcast: Chiwi JournalEpisode: #124: Unschooling, Innovating Education, Intuitive Learning and Startup Cities with Zach CaceresPub date: 2021-10-31Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMy guest today is Zach Caceres. He is an experienced software engineer and focuses on modern web technologies. He is interested in education and ##StartupCities and initiated a couple of cool projects in the relevant areas. In today's episode, we discussed: Zach's unschooling experiences at a young age and his way of learning. Why choose to go back to university later on? Hilarious stories on the arbitrary bureaucracy of our modern education What's the essence of education? Case study of innovating education from within Guatemala's top university Sneak peek of The Intuitive Programmer project, learning how to learn What's community technology? What's Startup City? Stories on informal entrepreneurs and almost dead experience in Africa and South America. How does technology power up the city building and enhance people's living conditions? Brief introduction of Benjamin Blooms's two sigma problems What's 'The Great Fact' raised by Deirdre McCloskey What get you most excited about the future? Books and links mentioned in this episode: Zach's super cool website Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential Innovating Education from Within Guatemala's Top University Professor Barbara Oakley Polymath Michael Polanyi The Intuitive Programmer: Learning How to Learn Programming Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley | TEDxOaklandUniversity Focused vs. diffuse thinking: which is better for learning? Pathological Altruism The Start Of Startup Cities Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US! CityDAO: Blockchain Cities IRL Informal Entrepreneurship Stealth of Nations by Robert Neuwirth City of God movie Amazing video shows 10-story high-rise built in a day Maybe the Coronavirus Was Lower-Hanging Fruit Benjamin Blooms's two sigma problems Khan Academy Duolingo Ad Astra Academy The Great Fact- the humongous increase in humans' standard of living that began about 200 years ago. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Camellia Yang, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.