[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":785},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-list":3},[4,70,119,171,217,263,325,454,672],{"id":5,"title":6,"body":7,"date":58,"description":59,"extension":60,"meta":61,"navigation":62,"path":63,"seo":64,"stem":65,"tags":66,"__hash__":69},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fbuilding-this-site.md","Building this site",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":54},"minimark",[10,19,22,34,40,46],[11,12,13,14,18],"p",{},"Every product I ship lives on someone else's domain model — a template, a\nbilling provider, an app store's idea of what software is. This site is the\none place on the internet where the domain model is just ",[15,16,17],"em",{},"me",": the work, the\nrecipe box, the writing.",[11,20,21],{},"A few deliberate choices:",[11,23,24,28,29,33],{},[25,26,27],"strong",{},"Markdown all the way down."," Work writeups, recipes, and posts are all\nfiles in a git repo, rendered with Nuxt Content. No CMS, no database, nothing\nto migrate later. Adding a recipe is ",[30,31,32],"code",{},"git commit",".",[11,35,36,39],{},[25,37,38],{},"Fully static."," The whole site prerenders at build time and ships as flat\nfiles from Cloudflare's edge. There is no server to wake up, which is the\ncorrect amount of server for a personal site.",[11,41,42,45],{},[25,43,44],{},"Recipes are structured, not prose."," Ingredients live in frontmatter with\ngroups and gram weights, so the cook view can render a proper checklist and\nthe print stylesheet produces a page worth taping to a cabinet.",[11,47,48,49,33],{},"The rest of the how-it's-built details live in the\n",[50,51,53],"a",{"href":52},"\u002Fcolophon","colophon",{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":57},"",2,[],"2026-08-30","Why a personal site in 2026, and the choices behind this one.","md",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fbuilding-this-site",{"title":6,"description":59},"blog\u002Fbuilding-this-site",[67,68],"meta","nuxt","F7cwT97MY-C9UatJxeAOeutUlRsqgwt4uCuVkmzj1Pw",{"id":71,"title":72,"body":73,"date":109,"description":110,"extension":60,"meta":111,"navigation":62,"path":112,"seo":113,"stem":114,"tags":115,"__hash__":118},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fsocializing-technology.md","Socializing technology",{"type":8,"value":74,"toc":107},[75,78,81,84,87,90,93,96],[11,76,77],{},"When language first emerged, we were able to communicate in person with one another in any given moment. Then we learned to write our thoughts down to communicate across distance and time. Over the last two hundred years, we've figured out how to record the spoken word and our faces, while being able to transmit them around the world in milliseconds. Today, we have gone so far as to be able to generate words, audio, and video artificially, as though they were created by a real person. Shared knowledge and communication have been our competitive advantages in the survival of the fittest.",[11,79,80],{},"Walk into any library and the thought of reading every book is overwhelming. The internet is a combination of every library as well as most other systems of record combined. How do we filter through it all? For me, the answer is with each other's help. I'll take a friend's recommendation for a restaurant. I'll decide which headphones to buy based on collective reviews. The news I read is vetted by publications with reputations that were earned over time and can be lost in an instant. Tapping into the worldwide hive-mind can have its benefits when used appropriately.",[11,82,83],{},"It's incredibly valuable to be able to communicate over distances. With satellite internet, we are covering the entire planet with internet access. Across distance, it is easier to remove any filters you would otherwise have face to face. The strong, often hurtful opinions of others can be sent to us quite easily. The threat of physical violence and\u002For reputational damage in personal confrontations is removed to a large extent on the internet. There are many people that enter the online arena looking for an outlet for their frustrations. That is one of the main reasons I chose to leave that arena. I still tap into the value of distance communication by communicating with my friends and family around the world.",[11,85,86],{},"One of the students I tutor mentioned that he'll be spending his school break on Roblox. It's easy to draw parallels to how kids used to spend their breaks in arcades together. But when they got hungry, they would still head across the street together to have a meal. Now, they might not even log off to eat, and they certainly won't be eating with each other in person. It's concerning that the cheapest, easiest ways to socialize today are online. I don't entirely understand the appeal, even though I'll spend some nights playing video games online with friends. The value of in-person events and activities will only go up as it gets easier to get together online.",[11,88,89],{},"This article will live for as long as Substack and I choose to host it on this platform. It will be associated with me that entire time. It will be a part of my reputation. A question we ask ourselves more and more these days is whether or not I should say something online. It is a reputational risk. What we say or do may stay with us for the rest of our lives. This is causing people to take fewer risks, especially kids. Why ask out the person you're interested in if they might say no and tell the whole school? Self-censorship is missing 100% of the shots you won't take.",[11,91,92],{},"Language is the technology that brings us together. It allows us to exchange ideas and feelings across space and time. We have unprecedented opportunities for connection at our disposal. Parents have a responsibility to guide their children on how to use technology together to learn, explore, and communicate. This means teaching them when to engage online and when to step away, how to navigate their reputation while taking healthy social risks, and most importantly, how to maintain genuine human connections in an increasingly virtual world. There's so much potential in these tools of connection. We must make it good for everyone's sake.",[94,95],"hr",{},[11,97,98],{},[15,99,100,101,33],{},"Originally published on ",[50,102,106],{"href":103,"rel":104},"https:\u002F\u002Fjeremyettlinger.substack.com\u002Fp\u002Fsocializing-technology",[105],"nofollow","Substack",{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":108},[],"2025-02-25","Part 4 of Jeremy's Declassified Technology Survival Guide.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsocializing-technology",{"title":72,"description":110},"blog\u002Fsocializing-technology",[116,117],"technology","declassified","_UNlc5nTGykSRM3ZOnFKHmTIXEnrECjPkbb56t2-k_g",{"id":120,"title":121,"body":122,"date":163,"description":164,"extension":60,"meta":165,"navigation":62,"path":166,"seo":167,"stem":168,"tags":169,"__hash__":170},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fentertaining-technology.md","Entertaining technology",{"type":8,"value":123,"toc":161},[124,127,130,133,136,139,142,145,148,151,153],[11,125,126],{},"If it worked perfectly, technology would be joyful anytime it's used. For kids throughout history, this has largely been true. Picking up a stick, making dolls, spinning tops, and flying a kite. We learn to harness the world around us for our enjoyment.",[11,128,129],{},"Only recently have we started to ask the question 'how much technology is too much technology?', especially for the growing mind. From iPad babies to Montessori children, the diversity in technological upbringing has never been greater.",[11,131,132],{},"Looking back on my own upbringing, we were technology forward within reason. I began life with some toys. A baby bouncer, play sets, and a Little Tikes car that I'd do laps around the house with, drive-by-eating corn muffins off the counter. I probably learned to read by asking my sister \"what's that show with the 'b'?\" (Blue's Clues recorded on the DVR). It was at that moment my sister knew she could no longer be a TV tyrant. I have fond memories of playing video games socially with friends and family, exploring new worlds and competing in the comfort of the living room. By my teens, I was allowed to use technology at my own discretion.",[11,134,135],{},"Without structure and limits, it is easy to become consumed by technology. Even with a fair amount of self-imposed rules, I'd stay up late watching TV, forget to eat dinner while playing video games, and scroll social media for hours without any goal in mind. Over time I realized that the easiest way for me to avoid the behavior I disliked in myself was to remove it entirely. If you want to avoid junk food, don't bring it in the house. If you want to avoid social media, delete it.",[11,137,138],{},"There is enough entertainment content in the world for anyone to live a life entirely consumed by it. I'm sure you could live millions of lives that way. As this content has increased exponentially, self-control has become that much more important. Never before in history have we been able to put a direct price on someone's attention at any given moment. It is on us to understand that value in the present and for our future selves. It is certainly worth more than the highest bid.",[11,140,141],{},"Over the holidays, I saw my 7 year old cousin watch a YouTube video with AI generated cats that quickly bounced between different scenes of emotional extremes. Crying baby kitten who lost its mother. Happy cat playing in a sandbox. A quick search will show creators raking in money on these videos while spending little to no time producing them. It feels as though we've given kids a shotgun aimed at their head.",[11,143,144],{},"Even as I write this on my laptop with my phone next to me, the temptations are tremendous. I have to actively stop myself from habitually picking up the phone and clicking on the app I'm hardwired to open. If I listened to my own advice, I'd leave the phone somewhere else. I'd unload the gun. Alright fine, I just threw it across the room.",[11,146,147],{},"The easiest way to use technology is passively. The news is on the TV in the background. Take a break by scrolling Instagram for just a few minutes. The trending word 'bedrot' implies there is no activity going on nor brain to be stimulated. Technology at its worst is a pacifier for the mind. A distraction to avoid actively engaging with your mind, the world, and each other.",[11,149,150],{},"This all speaks to our relationship with technology. What is a healthy relationship? The best answer I've come up with is one that is engaging, has a goal in mind, with moderation, and to provide something of long-term value. For kids, that means having reasonable quality and quantity limits while using it primarily for education or to socialize. It's honestly the same for adults, but you are only accountable to yourself. Good luck.",[94,152],{},[11,154,155],{},[15,156,100,157,33],{},[50,158,106],{"href":159,"rel":160},"https:\u002F\u002Fjeremyettlinger.substack.com\u002Fp\u002Fentertaining-technology",[105],{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":162},[],"2025-02-16","Part 3 of Jeremy's Declassified Technology Survival Guide.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fentertaining-technology",{"title":121,"description":164},"blog\u002Fentertaining-technology",[116,117],"RgrDojig7wkyxi1nKLejzlvi1nzRkHL_gGfrWJnttGQ",{"id":172,"title":173,"body":174,"date":209,"description":210,"extension":60,"meta":211,"navigation":62,"path":212,"seo":213,"stem":214,"tags":215,"__hash__":216},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fexploring-technology.md","Exploring technology",{"type":8,"value":175,"toc":207},[176,179,182,185,188,191,194,197,199],[11,177,178],{},"Technology impacts everything we do. That's one of the reasons for our record use of it, particularly screens. We use it for entertainment, for creativity, for information tracking, for communication, and many, many more uses. The breadth of technology in modern life is hard to fathom.",[11,180,181],{},"Writing this article, I'm surrounded by tools created by humans. I'm writing this on a computer, sitting on a couch, all while looking through my glasses. Occasionally I'll take a sip of water from my cup, glance over at the art on the walls, and hear the radiator steaming. I'm grateful for the water, gas, and wiring running through my walls to keep me comfortable. There are some plants here too to remind me that I exist in a world bigger than technology. All of these artifacts are a product of years of evolution.",[11,183,184],{},"When a new piece of technology is introduced, it usually comes with a few defined workflows or use cases. Over time, technology can generalize. Take computers as an example. We first used them in the military, to make calculations on ballistics trajectories. Now we can use a computer to talk to someone around the world, remotely operate a drone, and write about our own thoughts, among infinite uses.",[11,186,187],{},"This arc from purpose-built to general-purpose is a great way to introduce new technology to children. For a general-purpose toy like Legos, it would make sense to start with a basic set with a few pieces and a step-by-step guide. An intermediate step would be to work on more complex sets that have multiple possible outcomes. Over time, you could work up to having a general collection of pieces where the possibilities are endless.",[11,189,190],{},"There might be some roadblocks on the way up the learning curve. Maybe you stumble upon a pattern of use that is new and confusing. Maybe you find a broken piece of the system and aren't sure how to proceed. This general skill of troubleshooting is an essential part of navigating a complex world.",[11,192,193],{},"Throughout the journey, it's important to regulate a child's sense of confidence. With overconfidence, they may feel they know all they need to or have a false knowledge over a device or domain. With under-confidence, they may be afraid to explore further or require a lot of hand holding. In life, it is helpful to know what you know and what you do not know. Confidence in the limits of our knowledge keeps all the doors to opportunity open.",[11,195,196],{},"We're always told to blaze our own trail and embrace our curiosity. Most of the time, that's easier said than done, especially without experience navigating the unknown. Parents can be a source of confidence and knowledge, allowing children to explore the world before them. With technology becoming more general, complex, and encompassing over time, our knowledge and experiences will need to keep pace.",[94,198],{},[11,200,201],{},[15,202,100,203,33],{},[50,204,106],{"href":205,"rel":206},"https:\u002F\u002Fjeremyettlinger.substack.com\u002Fp\u002Fexploring-technology",[105],{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":208},[],"2025-02-04","Part 2 of Jeremy's Declassified Technology Survival Guide.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fexploring-technology",{"title":173,"description":210},"blog\u002Fexploring-technology",[116,117],"UBNxUONBQNN8gDl-Otu7yeaWqjpDhds9Xo3uL-kT3-w",{"id":218,"title":219,"body":220,"date":255,"description":256,"extension":60,"meta":257,"navigation":62,"path":258,"seo":259,"stem":260,"tags":261,"__hash__":262},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fexplaining-technology.md","Explaining technology",{"type":8,"value":221,"toc":253},[222,225,228,231,234,237,240,243,245],[11,223,224],{},"It started with tools. Axes to chop wood. Wheels to transport items. An abacus to count. A compass to navigate the world. A printing press to share ideas.",[11,226,227],{},"Technological advancement continues to accelerate. There are people alive today that were born in a world without computers. It's hard to imagine what a child born today will live to see. How do we set them up for this world of rapid change and uncertainty?",[11,229,230],{},"An instruction manual is a reasonable place to start. Instruction manuals are a relatively new concept. They were sent with machinery created during the industrial revolution of the 1800s. But even today, they are limited to tools and appliances that have constrained operating conditions. How do we teach children to be responsible participants in complex global systems of technology like the economy and the internet?",[11,232,233],{},"It starts with humility. Recognizing the limits of human nature in ourselves and others. Understanding failure modes that arise when these limits are pushed. Embracing the unknown unknowns. Using the wisdom we've earned over time through our own use of technology. This is the foundation for the critical thinking needed to navigate complexity.",[11,235,236],{},"Then comes the work. It would be easy enough to answer a curious child's question with \"I don't know\". That's a good start, but it is just that. The real work goes into the conversation about the search for answers; the exploration of the unknown. What is the best path towards a solution? What are the best tools to use? What happens when we get lost along the way?",[11,238,239],{},"This attempt at an instruction manual for thoughtfully teaching and navigating technology is difficult to lay out in any amount of words. The endeavor is worth it to embrace the humility and set in motion the work towards understanding.",[11,241,242],{},"The next installment will go into the different applications technology can play in our lives. Throughout the series we'll touch on the hot topics of discussion in 2025, like social media's role in our lives and the influence of AI on society. This is all to get our brains churning on how we can be the best shepherds of technology for ourselves and those we love and care for.",[94,244],{},[11,246,247],{},[15,248,100,249,33],{},[50,250,106],{"href":251,"rel":252},"https:\u002F\u002Fjeremyettlinger.substack.com\u002Fp\u002Fexplaining-technology",[105],{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":254},[],"2025-01-26","Part 1 of Jeremy's Declassified Technology Survival Guide.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fexplaining-technology",{"title":219,"description":256},"blog\u002Fexplaining-technology",[116,117],"xDFFmhK-CrslJNMSP82HeYTqjd21KzvnsUjiAOBZYJA",{"id":264,"title":265,"body":266,"date":317,"description":318,"extension":60,"meta":319,"navigation":62,"path":320,"seo":321,"stem":322,"tags":323,"__hash__":324},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fdeclassified-internet-survival-guide.md","Jeremy's declassified internet survival guide",{"type":8,"value":267,"toc":315},[268,271,274,277,280,283,286,289,296,299,302,305,307],[11,269,270],{},"Technology can be a divisive topic these days. This isn't new. What's new is the pervasiveness of technology. We release it into the world for billions to use within weeks. At best, we can be proactive, thinking deeply about its downstream effects and taking actions to prevent them. At worst, we release it without guardrails, ripe for exploitation. Modern technology has virtually unlimited potential and risk at what feels like exponentially decreasing time horizons.",[11,272,273],{},"Growing up, I was always at the forefront of innovation. My dad grew up with an innate curiosity towards technology. He used it to make his career, riding the wave of computer networking innovation. We always had the latest gadget. I quickly learned Microsoft Office, file systems, minesweeper, and digital pinball. I was raised computer-native.",[11,275,276],{},"For the first few years of my life, the internet wasn't particularly interesting. I was too young for AIM Messenger and video games weren't online yet. My dad got me an email that I use to this day. I missed the web's first era, but quickly got up to speed a few years into Web 2.0.",[11,278,279],{},"Getting a smartphone and setting up a Facebook account as a 10 year old posing as a 13 year old was my first exposure to the internet and its lack of rules and regulations. There was only so much to do, so those first experiments were mainly writing into the void. Nobody I knew was really there yet. I was a pioneer!",[11,281,282],{},"It took a few years for everyone to join me in the circus of the internet. The new toys at that point were Instagram and Snapchat. With Instagram, we could tell our stories in photos while keeping track of everyone else's. Who could have the most fun, be the most witty in their caption, and get the most likes? With Snapchat, we could do the same, but it was fleeting, so there was much less thought going into effort. The reality was random angles of your face or a dark screen with some text, but that wasn't even a requirement. We were guinea pigs, sending bits back and forth without a care in the world.",[11,284,285],{},"Fast forward through high school and college, one by one I stopped using these social media platforms. I lived through the games being played, turning likes and followers into status symbols. It was obvious in hindsight, but those with the least filters on their word choice and expression dominated the platforms. This Web 2.0 gave everyone a megaphone at their fingertips, and they used it. For someone that values their words, it feels like they so quickly get drowned out.",[11,287,288],{},"For nearly the past decade, I have not been a creator in any sense on these platforms. Even going onto Twitter for the first time during the pandemic, I used it as a firehose of information, entertainment, and distraction. I have learned a lot since entering the open gates of the internet. Exploring my passions, but also my modes of failure. Learning about the Napoleonic Wars, but also mindlessly scrolling through bad takes and random processed news. Conscious of my unconscious consumption.",[11,290,291,292,295],{},"I want to embark on a new era of creativity. I am hopeful to find a digital home on Substack. Its business model that allows readers to pay writers for the words that ",[15,293,294],{},"they"," own seems to be the most fundamentally sound. I still find myself \"doomscrolling\" its feeds, but I'll chalk that up to its information-density and human nature being relatively incompatible. I value my words greatly and hope to share more of them with the world.",[11,297,298],{},"My whole life, technology has mostly been a trial by error. It doesn't usually come with a how-to guide. Hopefully we are maturing as a species in time for the fastest pace of technological innovation seen yet. As users of technology, we rely on its creators to set up reasonable foundations for its proliferation in society. Otherwise its patterns of use are emergent. Everyone can have a better understanding of technology and how its use impacts ourselves and society. We can use that understanding to shape its direction along with humanity's.",[11,300,301],{},"While technology is advancing, the analog world continues, trying to keep pace. We can do more to empower ourselves and future generations with more mindful relationships to technology. This is more top of mind for me now as I recently found out that I'm going to be an uncle. As an unsolicited gift for my expecting sister, I'll create a how-to guide for the internet as it exists today and for where it's going in the future. I'm sure she'll love it...",[11,303,304],{},"Let's create the future of the analog and the digital together.",[94,306],{},[11,308,309],{},[15,310,100,311,33],{},[50,312,106],{"href":313,"rel":314},"https:\u002F\u002Fjeremyettlinger.substack.com\u002Fp\u002Fjeremys-declassified-internet-survival",[105],{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":316},[],"2025-01-21","Learnings on the internet, from someone who grew up alongside it.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fdeclassified-internet-survival-guide",{"title":265,"description":318},"blog\u002Fdeclassified-internet-survival-guide",[116,117],"izt6vJQaHKNyemHb7CQ29V4Ht_SsftiLe7xAVdM9Oew",{"id":326,"title":327,"body":328,"date":443,"description":444,"extension":60,"meta":445,"navigation":62,"path":446,"seo":447,"stem":448,"tags":449,"__hash__":453},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Ftesting-rocketpool.md","Testing Rocketpool",{"type":8,"value":329,"toc":436},[330,335,344,349,352,355,359,362,387,390,394,397,400,403,414,419,423,426,429,433],[11,331,332],{},[15,333,334],{},"From the archive of my 2022 personal site.",[11,336,337,338,343],{},"I recently created a ",[50,339,342],{"href":340,"rel":341},"https:\u002F\u002Frocketpool.net",[105],"Rocketpool"," node on Ethereum's Prater test network. If you're interested in learning more about ETH staking, I highly recommend going through this process. Rocketpool has made a great product.",[345,346,348],"h2",{"id":347},"requirements-and-priors","Requirements and priors",[11,350,351],{},"In the past, I have created my own computer. I also have experience using the command line in Linux. These are important concepts in the process of setting up a staking node. If they are new to you, take your time and reach out for help if you need to.",[11,353,354],{},"To create the staking node, it is important to adhere to the hardware requirements specified by Rocketpool. This was one of my larger mistakes during the process. I started out with 4gb of RAM and a 512gb spinning disk harddrive. The requirements are at least 8gb of RAM and 256gb of SSD memory for the test network.",[345,356,358],{"id":357},"setting-up-the-node","Setting up the node",[11,360,361],{},"The main steps in creating a local node are as follows:",[363,364,365,369,372,375,378,381,384],"ul",{},[366,367,368],"li",{},"Create the computer with the necessary hardware",[366,370,371],{},"Set up Ubuntu LTS on the machine",[366,373,374],{},"Add SSH from a remote machine to the Ubuntu machine",[366,376,377],{},"Secure the machine",[366,379,380],{},"Download the rocketpool software and Eth clients",[366,382,383],{},"Register the node",[366,385,386],{},"Create a minipool and start staking",[11,388,389],{},"One of the roadblocks I had was getting the test ETH and RPL to register the node. Rocketpool's Discord has a limit of one message every 6 hours for their faucet. Some members of the community helped expedite this for me.",[345,391,393],{"id":392},"tokenomics","Tokenomics",[11,395,396],{},"Rocketpool is the first decentralized staking protocol. The other staking options are running your own node, staking with Lido, or staking with a centralized exchange like Kraken or Coinbase.",[11,398,399],{},"To create a minipool, the node operator must put up 16 ETH as well as RPL worth at least 1.6 ETH (10%). This serves as collateral for the other 16 ETH received from rETH depositors to run the node on the Beacon Chain.",[11,401,402],{},"The node operator receives:",[363,404,405,408,411],{},[366,406,407],{},"ETH staking rewards on their 16 ETH in the minipool",[366,409,410],{},"ETH commission between 5-20% on the other 16 ETH in the minipool",[366,412,413],{},"RPL staking rewards on their collateral up to 150% (minimum 10%)",[11,415,416],{},[15,417,418],{},"Note: there is discussion of changing the variable commission rate to a fixed rate of 15%.",[345,420,422],{"id":421},"alternatives","Alternatives",[11,424,425],{},"Compared to solo staking a full node, Rocketpool allows a node operator to run 2 minipools with the same 32 ETH in addition to the commission earned. The caveats are the RPL staking requirement as well as trusting the security of the smart contracts.",[11,427,428],{},"I am not fully versed in Lido's tokenomics. There are claims that it leans more centralized due to the DAO's control of the staked ETH. As for staking with a central exchange, I come back to the \"not your keys, not your coins\" mantra.",[345,430,432],{"id":431},"conclusions","Conclusions",[11,434,435],{},"Rocketpool is a step in the right direction for staking ETH. It creates lucrative financial and decentralized incentives. It also simplifies the process of running a full node, making ETH staking more accessible to the masses. While there is a long way to go before anyone can run their own node, Rocketpool is a great product that I look forward to using on Ethereum's mainnet.",{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":437},[438,439,440,441,442],{"id":347,"depth":56,"text":348},{"id":357,"depth":56,"text":358},{"id":392,"depth":56,"text":393},{"id":421,"depth":56,"text":422},{"id":431,"depth":56,"text":432},"2022-03-08","Building a computer to stake Ethereum with Rocketpool's decentralized minipools.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftesting-rocketpool",{"title":327,"description":444},"blog\u002Ftesting-rocketpool",[450,451,452],"ethereum","staking","archive","V2hRp-_a-3K-LmFgfH_AV3_lYyNZZKcb0Kumlzc2IJE",{"id":455,"title":456,"body":457,"date":662,"description":663,"extension":60,"meta":664,"navigation":62,"path":665,"seo":666,"stem":667,"tags":668,"__hash__":671},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Feducation-as-public-good.md","Education as public good",{"type":8,"value":458,"toc":646},[459,463,467,470,473,477,480,487,491,494,499,502,506,509,513,516,520,523,527,533,539,543,546,552,558,564,570,574,577,591,594,598,601,607,613,619,625,631,637,640,643],[11,460,461],{},[15,462,334],{},[345,464,466],{"id":465},"what-is-education","What is education?",[11,468,469],{},"\"The act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.\" — Dictionary.com",[11,471,472],{},"Generally there is a student who learns from a teacher.",[345,474,476],{"id":475},"what-is-a-public-good","What is a public good?",[11,478,479],{},"\"A service such as national defence, law enforcement, and road building, that are for the benefit of, and available to, all members of the public\" — Dictionary.com",[11,481,482,483,486],{},"Generally something everyone uses or has access to. My interest in public goods was spurred by Kevin Owocki's ",[15,484,485],{},"Greenpilled",". Highly recommend.",[345,488,490],{"id":489},"how-do-we-pay-for-education","How do we pay for education?",[11,492,493],{},"This section will most likely show my upper class United States bias, but I will do my best to be objective.",[495,496,498],"h3",{"id":497},"kindergarten-through-12th-grade","Kindergarten through 12th grade",[11,500,501],{},"Public grade schools are paid through local school taxes, as well as state and federal subsidies. Essentially taxes. Private grade schools are paid directly by the student's parent or guardian. With any service, the expectation is if you pay more for it, it should be better.",[495,503,505],{"id":504},"academia","Academia",[11,507,508],{},"You have the same options of public or private upper education. There are generally more private schools and fewer public schools relative to grade school. At this point, many students take on debt to pay their way through schooling. There are direct forms of compensation like scholarships, grants, working as a Resident Assistant or Teaching Assistant. Those are up to the student to acquire.",[495,510,512],{"id":511},"bootcamps","Bootcamps",[11,514,515],{},"In the past decade a new form of education has emerged called a bootcamp. These are usually in STEM-related fields like computer science. They are paid for by the student, with the option to pay in full, in installments, with debt, or with an income sharing agreement where the student pays the bootcamp a percentage of their income when they get a job.",[495,517,519],{"id":518},"other-services","Other services",[11,521,522],{},"In life there are many opportunities to learn. Generally these will be paid for privately and directly, like hiring a private tutor, or by the government as a public good, like the public library.",[345,524,526],{"id":525},"resources-vs-relationships","Resources vs. relationships",[11,528,529,532],{},[25,530,531],{},"Resources."," If you want to learn something, you need a resource that has the knowledge you are looking to acquire. This can be a book, video, or an entire course. With a resource, the limit to your knowledge is the knowledge contained within the resource. Resources are one-way communication and education.",[11,534,535,538],{},[25,536,537],{},"Relationships."," A relationship is a resource that can talk back to you. This can be to offer feedback, inspiration, or questions. The limit of a relationship is much greater than the limit of a resource because they can share all of their knowledge while also inspiring you to learn more than even they know. Relationships are two-way communication and education.",[345,540,542],{"id":541},"choice","Choice",[11,544,545],{},"There are a lot of decisions to be had when learning something new. In today's systems, the learner does not have much power of choice.",[11,547,548,551],{},[25,549,550],{},"Where will you learn?"," For grade school, that is dependent on where you live. Onward, that is dependent on which schools and\u002For teachers accept you. You must prove you are a worthy student.",[11,553,554,557],{},[25,555,556],{},"What will you learn?"," In grade school, you don't have many choices here. Maybe in high school you can choose your extracurriculars. After that, you have a lot more choice, but again it is dependent on where you are accepted. To be accepted, you may already need experience in what you want to learn. So this decision may come before a relationship is even established.",[11,559,560,563],{},[25,561,562],{},"Who will you learn from?"," This is highly dependent on where you will learn. The teacher has every right to leave the relationship at any time. Fortunately in today's world, if the where is \"online\", your options are relatively limitless.",[11,565,566,569],{},[25,567,568],{},"How will you learn?"," This is limited to the teacher's capacity to learn and their willingness to take feedback and suggestions.",[345,571,573],{"id":572},"ideal-education","Ideal education",[11,575,576],{},"In an ideal world, you could:",[363,578,579,582,585,588],{},[366,580,581],{},"learn anything you wanted",[366,583,584],{},"from anyone you wanted to learn from",[366,586,587],{},"with anyone you wanted to learn with",[366,589,590],{},"for free",[11,592,593],{},"Sounds great right?",[345,595,597],{"id":596},"possible-solution","Possible solution",[11,599,600],{},"The solution I envision is a martial arts style of learning\u002Fteaching applied to any knowledge field. A knowledge Dojo.",[11,602,603,606],{},[25,604,605],{},"Leadership."," This Dojo will be led by one or several sensei. They will oversee all instruction in the Dojo.",[11,608,609,612],{},[25,610,611],{},"Students."," The students at the Dojo will be ranked by their skills. This rank will be in the form of a belt (white, yellow, ..., brown, black). They will practice with other students and learn from those with greater skills than them. To move onto the next belt, there is an assessment given by the sensei.",[11,614,615,618],{},[25,616,617],{},"Dojo as public good."," To make it a public good, there could be a general membership fee for everyone. To reward the sensei and student-teachers for their instruction, they can get paid from the membership fees. So if someone has trouble paying for membership, they can teach more.",[11,620,621,624],{},[25,622,623],{},"Limitations."," Membership to the Dojo may be a hot commodity. To keep the community reasonably sized, there may need to be a cap on how many people can be a part of the Dojo. Fortunately, as more students become sensei, the model for the Dojo can be replicated like martial arts gyms are today.",[11,626,627,630],{},[25,628,629],{},"Dojo DAO."," The implications for this in web3 are salient. There is a strong need for more skilled developers as well as a strong desire to learn. I may do another writeup about a potential \"Developer Dojo DAO\".",[11,632,633,636],{},[25,634,635],{},"AI teachers."," With AI teachers, we really could learn anything we wanted to learn from anyone we wanted to learn from. A real world example today would be learning to play chess from the world's best chess player, Magnus Carlsen. It would cost a lot of money to pay him directly for his time. But an AI teacher could play exactly how he does and give tips similarly to how he would. This is possible today. As with many novel AI applications, chess is leading the way.",[345,638,456],{"id":639},"education-as-public-good",[11,641,642],{},"I want a world where I can upskill without any friction besides my own cognitive impairment. There are different practices around the world that we can learn from to establish the education systems we want for the future. The core principles I see are free choice, open access, and win and help win incentives.",[11,644,645],{},"Thank you for reading this far. I would appreciate any and all comments, questions, or feedback. :)",{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":647},[648,649,650,657,658,659,660,661],{"id":465,"depth":56,"text":466},{"id":475,"depth":56,"text":476},{"id":489,"depth":56,"text":490,"children":651},[652,654,655,656],{"id":497,"depth":653,"text":498},3,{"id":504,"depth":653,"text":505},{"id":511,"depth":653,"text":512},{"id":518,"depth":653,"text":519},{"id":525,"depth":56,"text":526},{"id":541,"depth":56,"text":542},{"id":572,"depth":56,"text":573},{"id":596,"depth":56,"text":597},{"id":639,"depth":56,"text":456},"2022-03-01","What would learning look like with free choice, open access, and win-and-help-win incentives? A sketch of the knowledge dojo.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Feducation-as-public-good",{"title":456,"description":663},"blog\u002Feducation-as-public-good",[669,670,452],"education","ideas","-TfAJths2kqomclnULwKbuxzg3wZHviRa9RYcPTRz5U",{"id":673,"title":674,"body":675,"date":775,"description":776,"extension":60,"meta":777,"navigation":62,"path":778,"seo":779,"stem":780,"tags":781,"__hash__":784},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fa-decentralized-personal-website.md","A decentralized personal website",{"type":8,"value":676,"toc":765},[677,685,688,692,695,699,702,706,710,713,716,719,723,726,730,736,742,748,754,760,762],[11,678,679],{},[15,680,681,682,684],{},"From the archive: this post describes the 2022 predecessor of this site. The ",[50,683,53],{"href":52}," has the full lineage.",[11,686,687],{},"This website\u002Fportfolio will serve as a central location for my thoughts and work. I am most comfortable in the medium of the written word. It is important to put my thoughts out on the internet to contribute to the ongoing battle of ideas\u002Fmemes.",[345,689,691],{"id":690},"priors","Priors",[11,693,694],{},"Before working on this website, I worked for 18 months building out a design system using Vue 2. Along with my front end experience, I have experience in the MERN stack during my course studies at university.",[345,696,698],{"id":697},"goals","Goals",[11,700,701],{},"Given this previous experience, I wanted to get up to speed on the best tools in the Vue ecosystem as well as learn Vue 3, mainly the composition API. For the website itself, I wanted to make it reasonably decentralized on the backend. This is for practical purposes as well as understanding the tools available today to build decentralized web applications.",[345,703,705],{"id":704},"tools","Tools",[495,707,709],{"id":708},"front-end","Front end",[11,711,712],{},"Vue is the frontend framework I have the most experience with. That is my main motivation for working with it on this project. Vue 3's composition API is a big step in the readability of the framework. Previously I have worked with the vue-property-decorator package to accomplish some of the composition API's goals. So to me the step was not as big as someone using the standard Vue 2 syntax. Nevertheless it makes building components a genuine pleasure.",[11,714,715],{},"Vite is a breath of fresh air compared to what I am used to with my previous company. They were stuck on old tools and dependencies that led to build times in the minutes and dev times in the 10s of seconds. With Vite, the build time is \u003C5s and the dev time is virtually instant. In addition to these speed improvements, the ecosystem around Vite is impressive. From markdown to file-based routing, the plugins available are intuitive and useful both in documentation and in implementation.",[11,717,718],{},"TailwindCSS is an interesting framework that integrates HTML and CSS even more tightly than they are natively. WindiCSS takes this and runs, adding more utility, speed, and simplicity to the framework. It was easy to create my themes and build my custom styling onto the blog starter.",[495,720,722],{"id":721},"back-end","Back end",[11,724,725],{},"Fleek is a service that takes a Github repository for a web application and hosts it on the Internet Computer and\u002For the InterPlanetary File System among others. It also has integrations for hosting to decentralized domains like HNS (Handshake) and ENS (Ethereum). To this end, I decided to purchase a Handshake domain for purely cost reasons. Handshake is its own proof of work blockchain. This decision was made prior to Ethereum gas prices coming down as of writing this, so I may purchase an ENS domain as well. Fleek is currently having an issue linking up to HNS domains, but their Discord support is actively working with me to solve it. Fleek also supports storing on IPFS using Filecoin.",[345,727,729],{"id":728},"sections","Sections",[11,731,732,735],{},[25,733,734],{},"Writings."," This section will contain any of my writings I choose to publish. This may be well-researched articles, written thoughts, and even fiction. It will stay professional. The work will be written in markdown for the foreseeable future.",[11,737,738,741],{},[25,739,740],{},"Projects."," My projects will be explained and discussed in this section. My interests all revolve around computer science. Web3, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Web Development will surely make their way in here among other topics.",[11,743,744,747],{},[25,745,746],{},"Dashboard."," This page will be a project in itself. It will most likely be what I think is the best personal dashboard for myself at any given time. It may contain data like the investments I'm tracking, the information I am keen to ingest, or my health. The goal is to help me track what's important to me.",[11,749,750,753],{},[25,751,752],{},"Resumé."," Pretty self-explanatory. Just a section to include my resumé (CV) for potential employers, collaborators, etc.",[11,755,756,759],{},[25,757,758],{},"Contact."," Also self-explanatory. A place to draft me an email or find my other methods of contact.",[345,761,432],{"id":431},[11,763,764],{},"At the time of writing this I am satisfied with the results. I look forward to fully deploying onto my domains and perhaps purchasing additional domains. I am excited to start developing other projects and writings. Thank you for reading and please reach out with any comments, questions, and suggestions!",{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":766},[767,768,769,773,774],{"id":690,"depth":56,"text":691},{"id":697,"depth":56,"text":698},{"id":704,"depth":56,"text":705,"children":770},[771,772],{"id":708,"depth":653,"text":709},{"id":721,"depth":653,"text":722},{"id":728,"depth":56,"text":729},{"id":431,"depth":56,"text":432},"2022-02-24","Building the 2022 edition of this site — Vue 3, Vite, and WindiCSS, hosted on the Internet Computer behind a Handshake domain.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fa-decentralized-personal-website",{"title":674,"description":776},"blog\u002Fa-decentralized-personal-website",[782,783,67,452],"vue","web3","tGxbhvaolbkktywigcm13jtKNFe85Ui8Z66GYSNNVds",1788130349861]