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The Spider

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The spider is a wonderful creature. She weaves such a regular web which has such regular features all plotted in her tiny head. The spokes meet in the middle the net runs round and round. How they get there seems a riddle, tiny miles above the ground. The spider swings across vast spaces she plunges unimaginable depths without a hint of fear on her faces or the slightest thought of death. Her limbs are slim and busy, her touch, subtle as the wind. Weaving and leaving her monuments wherever she has been When her work is done she sleeps for day after day in her home content that her work will reap her the fruits of what she has sewn. May my house always be open to host her may her wonders be always near I am always grateful to behold her - nature's engineer.

Four Things I Wish I Had Learned in School

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When I was a kid I was good at school. That turned out to be way less important than I thought it would be. The basic school skills of memorization, arithmetic, and essay writing are fine things to develop. But this narrow range of training omitted many important skills that I would need in life. And worse, this curriculum left me squarely in middle of my comfort zone for 13 years, so I never had to develop the meta-skills of skill acquisition. I was cocky and complacent. When I hit the adult world, the adult world hit back. I was terribly unprepared to navigate its complexity. I found myself needing to develop, on the fly, a different skill-set from the one I had been taught. I needed to work on sensing opportunities, communicating my desires, detecting and removing fantasy from my world-model, attention management, making friends, letting go of resentment, and effective problem selection. 11 years navigating the turbulent currents of independent adult life is long enough that I�ve st...