Eric E Castro

Urban sprawl is bad; intellectual sprawl is good

The most valuable compensation for working at a startup as opposed to a “normal job” is a dramatically higher rate-of-learning

— <p><a href=“https://medium.com/p/56dddc17fa42"&gt;Kyle Tibbitts</a>.</p>

<p>Tibbitts goes on to define rate-of-learning as</p>

<blockquote> <p>the velocity at which you are aggregating new insights and deploying them in ways that build value.</p> </blockquote>

<p>I can&rsquo;t help but think about this in terms of academia… and wonder to what degree the rate-of-learning amongst teachers and administrators is actively valued.</p>

<p>My own rate-of-learning over the past 16-years has decreased in regards to pedagogy while increasing in terms of discipline-specific knowledge. That seems somehow logical, especially teaching such a dynamic topic as general psychology. However, I want to reverse the stagnation in my pedagogy.</p>